There’s a long gap between intentions and implementation. Less click bait, more quality, more fairness seem like admirable intentions, yet many, many people are expressing the unfairness of the boost system. My take is that the boost system has become a self fulfilling prophecy. The best work is boosted. Oh look, everyone loved that boosted story, it must be the best!

And here was I thinking writing was going to help me break free of all those school yard popularity games I was never very good at. What an idiot saveloy am I!