It wasn't until this comment that made me realize that using "written in Rust" as rage click bait is such a "useful" strategy here, because it will inevitably attract plenty of comments about the mentioning of the language. Ironically, the people complaining end up increasing the post's rank by engaging more.
It can harm it too; if a thread here has more comments than upvotes, it's heavily penalized by the algorithm. I have seen good stories sometimes get buried because two early commentors get into a fight, before there's enough time to gain more upvotes.
I didn’t mean it as a complaint (that’d be meaningless, it doesn’t hurt me in any way) but merely as an interesting pattern I noticed. I’m happy that it generated interest, even though I got very little to no upvotes at the end!
