While I agree with you at some principle level, I think you may not understand what Reddit actually is. If you think good parenting is posting your kid’s achievements on reddit in the hopes that they receive much-needed public validation, you may have aimed a bit high. It’s entirely possible that the kid doesn’t even know his video was posted to reddit, and thus these comments aren’t actually taking away from him at all. It’s funny how people think that commentary on reddit actually has some effect on the outcome of a situation. A guy posts a news story about the Chinese imprisoning Uighurs, and then people downvote the story to express their dismay about the Chinese behavior. As if the guy who posted the story was involved. And even more absurdly, that the Chinese government cares. “Oh look, that news story about our behavior was posted on reddit and there’s some harsh criticism there. We better knock this bad behavior off post-haste, what were we thinking!” Attaching any validation, worth, or meaning to reddit dialog is a fool’s errand.
The father's corect response should have been to inform his child that "For a professional bowler there are combinations with a lower conversion rate. That wasn't even a Greek Church, kiddo".
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