As someone with aphantaisha I sort of hate that, but the annoying part is that it still works. YMMV

OK, that’s horrible, but the difference between mucking around and science is writing it down. Do not dis the general principle because of one example.

Goodhart’s law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”

TLDR as soon as you have a system like this people will game it…

You’ve obviously not been to a goth club recently ;)

Didn’t take as long as I expected, but I expected it (which is why I didn’t bother to read, even if it’s not all the way there, it’s coming).

Seriously, advertising (or propaganda to use the older name favoured by Goebbels) really needs to be seen as a much more serious enemy than most do. Propaganda for capitalists is super effective at sucking up peoples mental bandwidth, they’ve been selecting for it going on a century now and they’re depressingly good at it, if you don’t actively counter it, straight to the subconscious, along with all the background crap in it. /rant, but seriously…