comment

A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A woman with dark hair and round glasses stands behind a man with greenish hair who is holding a phone; she asks, "Why are you responding to that internet comment?" Panel 2: The man, peering at his phone, says, "Oh, normally I wouldn't, but you see this comment was made both in ignorance AND in bad faith, so this is what I'm spending my weekend on." Panel 3: The woman looks at him skeptically as he explains, "You have a problem and you are aware of the problem and you know how to fix the problem but you are not fixing the problem." Panel 4: The man, small in the background, says, "I would reply, but that statement was both accurate and well-intentioned," while the woman in the foreground stares wide-eyed and exclaims, "This planet needs a nuclear war." The joke: he only bothers replying to ignorant, bad-faith comments, so an accurate, well-meaning observation about himself goes unanswered. Votey (bonus panel): A hand-drawn two-axis quadrant chart. The vertical axis runs from "informed" at top to "ignorant" at bottom; the horizontal axis runs from "good faith" on the left to "bad faith" on the right. The bottom-right quadrant, meaning ignorant and bad faith, is labeled "BETTER RESPOND."