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An article reported that Japan had dropped out of China's top ten holiday destinations. I read all 354 comments. Exactly one person wrote that he lives on that money - it holds 1 agree and 100 disagrees
The article reported that Japan had dropped out of the top ten. Almost all 354 comments answered that this was good news. One person in 354 wrote that he lives on the money that left.
Not a subreddit you joined and not a curated feed — just whoever showed up under the article, in public, under a handle.
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Thirty years of regret. What was done to Japan over the Northern Territories, the Senkakus and Takeshima, what Japan said, and what Japan did, counted from the government's own records. Japan acted with something other than words in six cases, twice or more in the same case only three times, and every one ended in a release, a deportation or a refusal. Warning shots: zero
In 30 years: 22 airspace violations, 20 to 40 days a year of intrusions around the Senkakus, six landings by Russian leaders on the Northern Territories. Japan acted with something other than words six times, twice or more in the same case three times, and every one ended in a release, a deportation or a refusal. Warning shots: zero.
What you are looking at, in three lines.
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One comment section per story
Every article on Japan's largest news portal has exactly one comment section under it. Nobody joins it and nobody moderates it into shape - whoever read the article writes there, in the open.
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Three buttons, and that is all
Readers can press "I relate", "good point" or "hmm". Every number in these notes is a count of those presses, and the order of the thread is decided by them too.
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Read to the last comment, then counted
I do not stop at the top ten. One thread, read to the bottom, buttons counted, and the comments quoted word for word - with the Japanese original printed beside my translation so you can check it.
The anger didn't go away. It lost an address.
Every Japanese news story has exactly one comment section attached to it. Not a subreddit you joined — a single thread, ranked by votes. That is why the things algorithmic feeds hide are still sitting there, in the open.
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