[sanitycheck]

You don't want your customers OD'ing, you want them to keep coming back.

Just because there's a limit to the outrage tolerated, it doesn't mean that outrage isn't part of the plan.

[22289d]

You're supporting my argument. You're saying it's not in their best interests to maximize outrage.

That's where the goalposts are and that's where they are going to stay: whether or not they seek to maximize outrage.

[AlecSchueler]

You're just looking at it as "maximise peak outrage" when the other people are talking about "maximise outrage over time."

[22289d]

I was responding to someone else who said it. They did say '...whose business model depends on...outrage'.

So ya, that interpretation is the logical one. If your business model depends on something, you would be optimizing for maximizing it over time.

[JieJie]

A business depending on a dependable local water source can still be destroyed by a flood.

[Eddy_Viscosity2]

It may be better to say that they want to maximize effective outrage. Or put another way to 'optimize' outrage. They are really good at it.