in reply to A thought-provoking external article about abusive web-sites
Although I seriously doubt that PM is about to be a has-been (although some snark that it has been for some time), I do think that it has become an abusive place
You do think that; I don't. Abuser and abused are bound; break that bond.
Your post is another one in a series of yours, in which you complain that you are constantly downvoted (by a cabal, or by bots) and covered with harassment, that the voting system is diametric to good social behaviour and downvotes should be abolished and what more. I see a central theme here, but that's me. Might be otherwise.
Now you posted a link to an article to substantiate the claims you raised in that supposed series, someone else is saying something similar about another social media, and you link that to PerlMonks.
Dismiss those thoughts - not with a smirk, but with a smile. Why should bots or a cabal or someone else be able to hurt your righteousness?
High virtue is not virtuous
Therefore it has virtue
Low virtue never loses virtue
Therefore it has no virtue
High virtue takes no contrived action
And acts without agenda
Low virtue takes contrived action
And acts with agenda
High benevolence takes contrived action
And acts without agenda
High righteousness takes contrived action
And acts with agenda
High etiquette takes contrived action
And upon encountering no response
Uses arms to pull others
Therefore, the Tao is lost, and then virtue
Virtue is lost, and then benevolence
Benevolence is lost, and then righteousness
Righteousness is lost, and then etiquette
Those who have etiquette
are a thin shell of loyalty and sincerity
And the beginning of chaos
Those with foreknowledge
Are the flowers of the Tao
And the beginning of ignorance
Therefore the great person:
Abides in substance, and does not dwell on the thin shell
Abides in the real, and does not dwell on the flower
Thus they discard that and take this
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