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The Internet Imposes a BPD-style Relationship Pattern By Encouraging Early and Unearned Intimacy

thought digest, 06.02.2022

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Katherine Dee
Jun 02, 2022
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Heaven banning. It turns out heaven banning, a controversial practice where sites ban users by hiding posts by real people and populating their replies with bots, isn’t real. It isn’t even hypothetical; it was just a resurrected joke post from HackerNews (h/t a random Reddit thread). It’s interesting, though, especially situated in the broader context o…

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