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Re:The Toxoplasma of Rage (2014) by rendall on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @07:44AM (#23974692)
Knitting... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=knitting%20controversy

Young Adult fiction... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=young%20adult%20literature%20contr...

I wonder if there might be an internet rule: If you can think of it, there are people who hate each other over it

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Re:The Toxoplasma of Rage (2014) by api on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @07:56AM (#23974771)
Look! ^^^ Even these obscure cases just got an iota of precious attention!

Do people who don't hate each other over things get attention?

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Re:The Toxoplasma of Rage (2014) by 082349872349872 on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @12:33PM (#23977534)
Length of SSC articles... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23972789

I'm calling Poe's law, though :-)

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Re:The Toxoplasma of Rage (2014) by metafunctor on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @09:44AM (#23975671)
Not sure if I'd call it an “internet rule”, but a rule of the attention economy (of which the Internet is the primary medium).
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