Simple solution: Eliminate karma points/reputation points/likes/dislikes, all of it. People are going to find a way to game the system as long as there's a system to game.

I get it, my cats are my biggest source of garbage/waste in my own household, and I wouldn't give 'em up for anything. But when facing a problem, sometimes you have to weigh options you'd rather not consider.

Buy less useless shit. Less food deliveries, less "prepared" foods, less "made of the finest chinesium and thaitanium" products. Spend the extra buck for something that you'll get more than one use out of. Adopt out the cats if you really want to reduce the amount of garbage. They're a primary source of all that trash - food packaging, cleaning up their shit, all their fur...

Then of course there's the obvious "sort your shit - recycle what you can, compost what you can".

"pretty sure I was on a private tracker" - well there's your problem right there. You probably weren't. Not saying that you're lying or the like, but just so we're clear, Im differentiating between "Demonoid private" wherein everybody could create an account damned near whenever, and "UHD private" wherein it relies on a system of invites and/or interviews.

Meh, gas stoves kill you with cancer-causing agents. Electric stoves kill you by forcing you to feed into an already unbalanced system wherein the poor get poorer and the rich, in this case executives of power companies, get richer.

Hopefully it's a fight to the death. Loser's assets get donated to a good cause. Winner faces whatever other egomaniac wants to use their wealth to shit on the rest of humanity.

The battle ends when the last man standing has a net worth of less than $10 million.

As unfortunate as it is, migrant boats wrecking is common enough that it's not really "newsworthy" in terms of what grabs people's attention. Especially on a global scale. Similar to how a murder in somewhere like Maine would make the news, but in NYC it's just another day.

@Sordid

Even then, there's the theory/circumstantial "evidence" that Google's indexing is a big farce. Forgot where I saw the video, but someone pointed out that the average person only relies on the 1st page or two of search results. To try to go beyond that, most searches very quickly drop from "millions of results" down to a few hundred/thousand at best. Going beyond the first couple of search result pages, the page count seemingly drops off a cliff.

However, there are independent engines out there. The first one that pops to mind is Gigablast, which does it's own indexing/crawling.

If you've got some time to kill, check out some stuff related to the "Dead Internet Theory". While I cant say how accurate the information presented may be, it certainly opens up the idea that there's something funky about the internet and how we perceive it.

All these "-nauts" and "-ers/ors" are ridiculous. Herp derp I use a website, Im special!

Bin chickens, the lot of you.

Meh, I'm not too keen on the change from simple checkboxes for options to the toggle switch style. Even though they're functionally the same, the toggle switch just seems less intuitive.

Oh god, the EU one looks like that chick that 4chan tears to shreds on the regular for her weird "art" posts.

Those are some pretty beefy recommended specs. It'll be interesting to see how quickly mods outpace them.