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Originally Posted by Mesnick

No, it's the healthiest thing in the world. If a person is worried about something, he talks about it. It doesn't matter if it's positive or negative.

You're kidding, right? Obsessing and arguing over the same topic and talking about why you don't like it isn't healthy. It's a fixation issue that intrudes on others' enjoyment, when you can easily just leave those people alone and not engage with talking about the topic at all.

Talking about your worries is something you do in therapy or serious matters, not going onto online forums to talk about a show that you don't like or what they do in it, ad nauseum.

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

Well, I also mentioned Dante for a reason. It's not about the algorithm, because everything was exactly the same long before the advent of the Internet. Just good reviews are boring. Not that the bad ones are always interesting, but as a rule they are more diverse. This, by the way, is the same reason why dystopias are much more popular than utopias.

A good review isn't just endless praising or endless ripping into a work. A good review is something that takes the good and bad, what makes the story work, and actually dissects on why that is on a subjective and objective level. But really there is no true unbiased review, everyone's going to have biases and whatnot.

Negative reviews aren't anymore diverse than positive reviews. That is a lie. I've seen negative reviews from different people that repeat the same fucking points over and over again.

And maybe people focus on the Nine Circles of Hell because it's the closest idea people can have about what Hell is like (despite the fact that Dante's Divine Comedy isn't actually biblical doctrine), and people want to know what actions they could avoid to not get eternal damnation (despite, again, the Divine Comedy not actually being biblical doctrine). People are afraid of eternal damnation and want to avoid it, wow. And maybe people only being familiar with the Inferno means that people should fucking read the rest of Dante's Divine Comedy.