More like a quarter.

If you’re judging comments based mainly on how long they are, you should be grading high school essays about Jane Eyre, not trying to participate in an adult conversation.

SEO vs search engines is an arms race. Stagnating means the quality of results declines over time.

In general, no, it isn’t. It’s for comments that aren’t worthy of a response. In your case, it’s because of the racism.

Nobody’s blaming previous generations for causing climate change before it became widely known that it was a problem. We blame them (or the ones a majority of them elected, to be precise) for fighting tooth and nail to avoid doing anything once it became clear how big of a problem it is.