This strategy sounds perfect: ensuring Threads isn't the destination of choice for serious discussion. Thanks for sentencing your new product to death, Adam.

Start with the gasket. I replaced one in my Kohler toilet. Easy and cheap. You have to remove the cylinder to replace it, so you'll have the opportunity to inspect it for damage.

Poor guy. It's all he has going for him, I bet. That and kombucha tea.

Whinging about whinging. The spirit of Reddit lives on.