I get what this article is trying to criticize, but Oliver isn't a reactionary, he's just a capitalist left-leaning liberal, like all centrists, he has never implied he was anything but. The same goes for Stewart and Colbert, they're both liberals. Reactionary is reserved for the rightwing, that's what it is by definition, a person who is left leaning and capitalist is a liberal. The rest of the article though is right about a lot of things with Stewart and Oliver, they don't really get to the heart of the problem, they get about 90% there but then fail to actually point out the root causes. They blame certain symptoms, certain smaller issues that contribute, but the greater causes remain untouched.

Android has gotten the shaft for a while from devs, probably because of the fractured nature of the ecosystem. Even then, it sucks they didn't release it side by side, or at least a couple weeks apart. I'm glad they aren't putting it off longer(years even) though like some games that have been ported from iOS.

haha oh wow, that's a first, I posted that in a half-assed way too, I was going to add examples and whatnot but didn't want to put in that much effort for a simple opinion. Nice to know some people see the same patterns with communities as I do though, hopefully this one doesn't share the same fate.

You're right, but the power is there, and whether through ignorance or malice, it will be used for that purpose. This is why I much prefer a system like Slashdot.org's where they have moderation points and modded posters that dictate from -1 to +5 the quality of comments. Trolls, hate comments, and shitposts that drop below a certain threshold are hidden, and posts above 0 are visible, and can be seen as to their quality. That kind of system is far less likely to be abused easily, Snapzu's system looks similar enough to Reddit/Digg's system that I fear it will be abused in the same way, I want to be wrong.