Assmilking is a topic that is poisonous.

Why, you might ask yourself. Assmilking and talking about assmilking is nothing different that talking about some other immutable factors in human relationships. Assmilkers Parasites Freeloaders Freeriders High return for no effort kinds of people have existed since time immemorial, will not go away and cannot be banned. So, the question is what to do about them.

Well, you could invest authority in a central orgainization or person to make all the decisions that he or they think is proper. Do we want that? My answer is NO!!. By my observations, Stacker News was designed and constructed to give the participants as much control over all of the environment as possible. We decide who is trusted, what posts or comments deserve rewards, who to reward, why to reward, and where to do the posts and comments. The answer to the organizing question, whether centralized or decentralized (individualized) control is better for Stacker News has been answered by the developers and owners as DECENTRALIZED AND INDIVIDUALIZED.

That means that WE are the ones that determine how the assmilkers freeloaders freeriders parasites fare on Stacker News. Yes, they will game the system, try to take and not give, zap strategically and make inane comments and posts. They will do all that and more (I just cannot think of the more at the moment). What every THEY do, WE determine thier fate as far as rewards go. The only game they have in Stacker News is to game the leaderboard! That is the only way they can derive rewards from SN if nobody rewards them for less than useful, or wasted content. WE give them the sats they crave, even though the leaderboard has rewards attached. WE by our actions determine what their reward is. So, why are we bellyaching crying complaining about it? You have it in your power to withhold the rewards by just not giving them to those participants you think are taking advantage of us.

In biology the assmilkers freeloaders freeriders parasites have a specific function: they kill the weak and improve the strong! Which are you? If you improve discernment you are getting stronger. If your judgement on who and how much to reward becomes stronger, you become better at it in all walks of life. Does bellyaching crying complaining about it do any good? Well, I guess it feels good, but doesn't have much results. Calling out the assmilkers freeloaders freeriders parasites does nothing to embarrass them out of the habit, they are doing it for the sats. So your complaints do little to nothing to solve the problem and we are all aware of it, anyway.

Why don't you try to control the assmilkers by not rewarding them. Of course, if people can make many new nyms and reward themselves in circle jerk manner, this may be hard to work. You could limit the number of nyms a person can have, but the question then becomes, how? You could also control it by making the cut for the house larger, thus limiting the amount the circle jerkers can jerk each other. However, this limits the rewards that the honest posters and commenters can give each other. Again, it comes down to individuals gaining the discernment on how to understand the assmilkers freeloaders freeriders parasites and who they are. Of course, there are people willing to guide us by telling us who they think are circle jerking parasites (@DarthCoin, @Assmilker and others). This we can do without centralized control, by ourselves (@Undisciplined).

Whatever you think or do the topic of assmilkers freeloaders freeriders parasites is freighted with a lot of poison, poison to the assmilkers freeloaders freeriders parasites and poison to those call it out. Why just not cultivate your own garden and do your own weeding. Let everybody handle thier garden as they wish.