When my government wants to increase my taxes even further to combat climate change (already 50% tax rate for income above €17k/yr and 21% VAT), yes it does indeed destroy the economy of my wallet. Infuriating since the emissions my little country, Belgium, producese, are next to nothing.
Here's a neat fact: European cities have a tendency to have distance to the sea, because attacks coming from the sea were common in our history. That's less the case for third world countries, and especially America.
So raising sea levels will hurt Europe the least of all the continents.
I think he means that showing the comments with the most replies or the comments with the most mixed upvote/downvotes would be more interesting than just showing the most upvoted comment.
It's perfect for hobby or niche interest subreddits.
It's a flawed system for discussing politics or anything remotely controversial. Safespace bubbles, censorship by downvotes, mods that curate their subreddit, mass removed comments... That's all fine if you're discussing your favourite videogame or cooking recipes, but not when there's politics involved.
Imageboard style websites where every shit comment has as much visibility as the other is vastly superior for having an interesting discussion. The downside is that you have to wade through the bad comments.
You don't need to moderate your social media to death. Intensive moderation is used to control what your users are talking about.
Just let the users talk and say whatever they want. I'm tired of these nerds getting people banned when they say something mean online.