Comment by Eisenstein

No one is under the assumption that any social media space is going to be meritocratic or democratic. The assumption is that some percentage of users are manipulating it and the backend and admins are doing the same. It is an attention economy. I don't think anyone is naive about this. My comment was merely a take on the 'the video game controller is broken' excuse that everyone has when they need to cover for their ego. Sometimes the controller is broken, but it almost never is.