@kill

@dannekrose

Checking that the settings aren't going to own your firstborn is a should task, but I'm lazy too. :D

"talk at you" atmosphere

There's probably already a common term for this, but I use that terminology.

"Talking at you" instead of "talking to you" is where a responding comment isn't necessarily off topic, but it's also not directed at you. "Talk at you" style commenting is purposed to leverage what you've said for pushing an agenda, or as a writing prompt - often due to where your comment is positioned. Any response which doesn't coincide with the user's agenda doesn't receive any sort of organic response.

It seemed that "talking at you" grew to be the general mode of conversation on reddit as it grew too big. Organic conversations rarely occur because people end up just shouting their opinion into the void, competing for visibility by hanging their agenda on the most visible and tangentially relevant comment in a thread, or just plain shitposting the same dumb thing that is likely to generate imaginary internet points.

Hope that makes sense. heh