OK, I'll confess that the kittens are benefiting inadvertently from my own OCD-ishness, meaning I try to curate my comment section by quality and merit.
When they post to my comment section, I often use them as "markers."
In many cases, I'll upvote a kitten and after that, comments I vote to "above the kitten" are what I treat as more serious and conversational, and comments "below the kitten" tend to be one-time, quick reply things, or outright spam/vote begging that gets no vote at all.
Doesn't always work out that way... and it's not a hard and fast rule, I accidentally discovered it was kind of handy when wading 40-50 or more comments.
Probably more than you wanted to know... ;-)
so you're using the kitten as a "marker"?!?
I don't know, does that qualify as animal-abuse?
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