Reconsidering Bearblog; or, On the Value of Words

Edit: I wrote a subsequent post on healthy discourse . Last Sunday, I wrote a post calling out Robert Birming's repetitive writing . The post gained traction, receiving around 85 toasts before it got shadow-banned—removed from trending. I'll admit it: I got salty over this. Was it because the post was controversial? That it continued to receive toasts even after being hidden—and that I received a…