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I think any experiment that could potentially filter out bad faith participants is at least worth a try. I participate in political discussions pretty infrequently, but when reading them I often see users jumping in with a ridiculous viewpoint that they are completely unwilling to discuss or hear any flaws about. That’s not conversation, that’s trying to shout others down, and I will be interested to see if that kind of behavior gets caught by your bot.
That took me a second, I was wondering what Ethernet cables had to do with this…