frozen_tomato

So you at least agree he's racist then?

I think it's tricky because he's vocally supporting Tommy Robinson. It's pretty similar to if he came out in support of the KKK or something like that.

As someone who did enjoy his writing it's quite shocking and really very disappointing.

Can you define that term?

The real kicker is at the start

If you just can’t wait to get to the specifics of what happened to MetaFilter, scroll further down in this story now.

I'm pretty glad I didn't read all that between those two points just to be told that he doesn't know.

I wholeheartedly disagree with this, what you're essentially describing is just watered down identity. The whole point of the value of anonymity is that all posts are equal.

It really is, I ended up checking here straight away, despite there being a link directly to the status page on the error pages of github.

Yes, I hadn't played Democracy 2, but I was going to buy Democracy 3 on a whim, instead when I found the high price I pirated it.

I got well past the initial hour mentioned in the blog, but after about the third hour or so my interest waned, it is pretty shallow and to an extent just feels like you are 'playing' a spreadsheet with the occasional random value thrown in.

I hope this doesn't sound too disparaging, since I did have fun for the four hours or so I played, but I wouldn't call it deep strategy at all, and I would have felt pretty let down if I'd paid full price for it.