There are a number of times in my life I’ve seen some grumpy guy go on a whole rant about how a given community is against him, or doesn’t let in new people, or shuns what’s different etc, and that’s why he’s being treated unfairly. And I’d think calm down, man, you just have to try to be part of the group instead of fighting against it. So now I think karma is starting to mold me into that guy.

My latest aggravation on that front is Reddit. I know it’s not meant to be my own personal comic advertisement machine, but hell, there are “share on Reddit” buttons everywhere on the web, and I think my comics are good, so I share them. (In fact I don’t share all of them, just the ones that I think are pretty good.) I shared Figure 4 which I thought was pretty good, and it scores 1 to 3 points depending when you load the page, which I don’t get, but it suggests around 8-ish people voted it up and 6-ish people voted it down. And I was like, man, tough crowd.
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