The Outrage Machine

How to complete The Outrage Machine

Comment sections are engineered to surface the most inflammatory takes, leaving you angrier and more cynical with nothing to show for it. A month away lowers your stress and frees attention for the actual article or video.

1. Read or watch the piece, then close the tab before you reach the comments.
2. Install a comment-blocker extension or collapse comments on YouTube, Reddit, and news sites.
3. Mute the notifications that bait you back into a thread.
4. When the urge to 'see what people are saying' hits, note it and move on.

Tips

• Most browsers have extensions that hide comment sections sitewide, so set it once.
• Skip screenshot and 'ratio' posts; they're comment sections repackaged.

What counts as done

A full month passes without you scrolling or posting in a comments section on news or controversial content.