School boards are also very vulnerable to this kind of coordinated attack:

Low voter turnout, [Take Back Alberta leader David Parker] said, is the key to victory.

“Albertans and Canadians are apathetic and lazy. They never show up,” he said during another October 2023 speech in Calgary. “You could take over every school board in this entire province."

Ah, I gotcha.

Each community has the power to restrict the languages used in that community.

I can’t speak to the effectiveness of the system, as I don’t really spend time in non-English communities, but it’s certainly a poorly-documented feature.

It ensures that people who can’t read your post (that is, they have that language deselected in their own account settings) won’t see it.

Active (default): Calculates a rank based on the score and time of the latest comment, with decay over time

Hot: Like active, but uses time when the post was published

Source

Yeah, it looks like you’re right.

It seems to work for me - it switches all replies to appear as top-level comments, and sorts everything by “Old.”