i can’t stand megathreads – no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!
When people turn a popular post into an Oscars Acceptance Speech
ETA: wow thanks for the upvotes!
ETA2: omg my first gold award?? I couldn’t have made it without my mom and Jesus through whom all things are possible
This may be an unpopular option since I’ve already seen it across lemmy, but the ____porn communities. I’d like to browse pictures of nice landscapes or exotic cars without worry about someone around me noticing “PORN” on my screen.
At this point it seems very old internet, something that made sense when those communities were established, but now is unnecessary gratuitous and not socially acceptable.
Moderators who coddle bigots.
Bigots.
“Thanks for the gold kind stranger”
Can we stop talking about Reddit? Let it go.
This
(I’m so sorry. I couldn’t resist)
You maybe should have tried harder to resist.
Hey people grieve at different speeds. Some people got to acceptance on the same day, others are still in denial.
This! We all mourn at our own pace. Some people may still be at the anger stage.
…there is nothing to grieve…it is a website…
You are allowed to grieve whatever you feel you lost, even a website.
I was a daily reddit user since 2008. I don’t know anything else. The withdrawal symptoms were absolutely brutal until I figured out how Lemmy works.
Leaving reddit was harder than quitting nicotine. Let me grieve.
Yes, Lettit!
Creative writing presented as truth
Karma-whoring. It’s already started with the stupid “upote my can of beans” posts… Dude nobody cares about your internet points, either activity participate or fuck off to Instagram.
All I want is that top comments under posts are something insightful and related to the post, and not just the same one liner boring jokes that keep getting upvoted for some reason.
This is not a Reddit problem as much as it’s a people problem. It will happen here too over time.
There’s already in-jokes about not pooping and beans.
It’s an inherent problem with the way the Reddit algorithm works, and considering Lemmy’s algorithm is somewhat similar, it’s probably an inherent problem here too.
You usually have to read a comment before upvoting it. If it’s a short pithy joke, that takes just a second. If it’s a lengthy, more thoughtful comment, that might take as much as a minute to read. One person can easily upvote 10 pithy comments in the time another person upvotes 1 deep insightful one. So lower quality content will tend to drift towards the top.
This is the way.
I also choose this guy’s wife.
And my axe!
🗿
Who could forget such intriguing comments as: “This.”, or “Inb4 [x thing happens]”, et al.
It’s tiring to have to scroll half a page to get to any sort of meaningful information or opinion, then scrolling past and seeing 5 more of the same “and my axe!” “OK have u tried killing it with fire???” and some other overused, boring joke that’s been parroted around for about 5 years. I get that with the size of a lot of the subs there will always be people who find it funny, but…it’s just kinda lame, especially on posts that are meant to generate insightful and meaningful discussion, like learning posts, or trivia posts etc.
I would like to see novelty accounts like sprog or wildwatercolor take root again and the chains that turned into songs were fun. (Mostly because they were sporadic)
But I hope the pun threads die.
The “hivemind” ignoring the correct information or even worse, encouraging the wrong information.
Does anyone else remember the whole Boston Bomber fiasco (i.e. We did it, Reddit)?
A lot of people would just upvote the first bozo to reply with a confident answer and never bother to check for the full story. Scrolling 3 comments down you’d find someone who actually knows their stuff. I learned to at least read most of the comments before committing any Reddit info to memory as fact.
It’s most noticeable when the topic being discussed is your area of expertise. Then you clearly see what kind of grossly oversimplified or even blatantly false comments get made with so much confidence and upvoted.
I tried to keep this in mind while reading stuff that I’m not an expert in, but that’s hard.
Then you come out facts swinging, and despite possessing vastly more knowledge on the subject and presenting factual/cited corrections to their claims, you are the one downvoted because the userbase has already decided the false claim is more fun to believe.
Let them continue to devolve in their cesspool. They can have it… They deserve it…
Please don’t let /c/asklemmy become like /r/askreddit, which had half of the front-page posts being the same sex related questions every month.
“Women of reddit, what non sexual thing that guys so makes you horny?”
“What is the sexiest thing you regret doing?”
“How many cocks have you sucked while your cat judges you while waiting for you to feed it?”
It was bullshit.
Let’s all agree to actively downvote posts like that. Even if you don’t vote normally, you have to do your part and always downvote those posts so they don’t become popular.
i think it’s the wrong direction to try to police questions but instead empower users with the ability to filter by text or flairs
Remember this classic:
Ladies of Reddit - what is the most sexiest thing an overweight gamer has done that made you immediately want to have sex with him/be his girlfriend?
sex of sex, what is the sexiest sex you have ever sexed?
Gotta admit though, it was pretty cool when that subreddit simulation bot generated an askreddit thread titled something like “Redditors of Reddit, what’s the biggest mistake my mom makes in bed?”
I don’t know why the mods of r/AskReddit still accepts these kind of posts when it would be more appropriate to do an NSFW r/AskReddit (if it doesn’t already exist).
Comments like:
„This!“
Use the upvote button and shut up.
Came here to say this. Beat me to it.They’re already here. And they’re getting upvoted. I will never understand why anyone would upvote this crap.
This
(you brought this on yourself)
yep, this!
This /s
This!
Can we make “that” a lemmy thing instead? Still works and dummies are gonna post these kinds of comments anyway, but at least we can kind of own it.
I absolutely hate the love for revenge violence. Stuff like celebration people running over protestors in their cars because they were forced to stop on the road. Or bleeding out after someone got shot when they robbed a store.
This includes that fact that you can basically guarantee every thread contains at least one comment claiming “play stupid games, win stupid prizes”
r/the_donald or anything like it. Kindly fuck off with all of that shit.
When someone would ask a good question that you also wanna know the answer to, but then all the “answers” were just jokes bc everyone wanna get upvotes. I dont really mind jokes but those times it was a bit sad, then sometimes no one would answer for real bc i guess they see 10 replies and assume surely one of them is real already.
Also repost bots.
And apple vs samsung feuds.
And sometimes looked like whenever some people try to organize action or protests, comments just spamming that “protests do nothing” or “voting does nothing,” or “what is this gonna do,” not suggesting any other solution either, almost like trying to encourage apathy? Or discourage action. Sometimes i wondered if those were bots.
Also the r/wooosh when someone didn’t understand a joke. .-.
/u/spez
