Comment by logicallee

Oh. Was this fiction???

I thought it was fact. It was written exactly as though it were fact and all through the article I wished the author would produce a verbatim example for us to judge. At the end the author said that the reason the author wasn't doing so is because the comments section would end up nuked by infighting, and that made me appreciate it even more as fact.

Like a factual story told in detail, it had an aside that didn't really go anywhere. (For example the mozambique subreddit didn't turn private, with a cryptic statement that half of the moderators were removed, or something.)

How do you know it's fiction? What makes you think so?