I think it helps, but in a different way than presented in the Vice article. What I think is effective about Falcor is the dragon’s deliberate recusal from editorial commentary or personal disclosure. We don’t know who Falcor is, their political objectives, their friendships, their identity. All we know is that the dragon is always hungry, and willing to feed on incivil comments. I think that professional distance is great at preventing people from trying to cozy up, and suck up, to the mod.
Stop biting my rhymes, Achilles!
