BAIT Taxonomy — Standard Forms of Angertainment

You entered replies seeking light—
Context, calibration, some right.
Instead: maximum friction,
Curated affliction.
The comments became the weather’s height.

B-2A doesn’t care who wrote it.
Bot, human, or badly-timed—submit.
It concerns the sort:
Aggravation’s court
Was selected. That is the mandate.

B-2B: the same outrage format
Encountered so often that flat
Familiarity grows.
The anger still flows
But requires more bait to combat.

B-3A: the fatigue loop wherein
Each outrage depletes the within
Of the user’s capacity
For genuine scrutiny.
The anger runs, the context grows thin.

B-4A: persistent vigilance, low
Grade, under the ambient flow
Of updates. Not rage
But not rest. The stage
Of chronic attunement to woe.

B-5: a format that grants
The sharer moral authority slants—
To speak on behalf
Of the wronged. The craft:
Moral fluency. Righteous rants.

Strong emotion, no residue past
The next refresh interval: classed
As high-intensity
Feed artifact. Free
Of certification. The anger: fast.

A reply surface keeps it circling
Long after the source item’s trickling
To nothing. The comments
Become the monuments
To what the post was—still prickling.

Filer’s strongest feeling attaches
To strangers. The outrage hatches
From the ordering.
Low recall. Bordering
On weather—nobody latches.

“The comments became the weather”—
Staff shorthand, held together
Informally. Therefore:
Everywhere. The lore
That won’t be sanctioned either.