Something that’s not super controversial, but you still really stand by it.

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    There’s no incentive to virtue signal either, though.

    For most users there’s no incentives of any kind, and they go to their default, which is alternatingly butthurt and mildly helpful. A minority are sadistic, virtue signaling or similar. And of course, everyone is horny.

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      22 days ago

      Of course there is incentive for online virtue signaling - all the likes and shares and attention.

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        It seems to me positive attention comes out of compassion as well, unless it only counts when there’s no extrinsic motivation for it.

        There is quite a lot of compassionate-seeming exchanges you can find on here, right?

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          Absolutely, and I’m happy to hear you see it that way too. Online platforms don’t really incentivize that though. That’s just my lukewarm take on that