I grew so tired of the joke comments that didn't add anything to the conversation. The amount of garbage comments I'd have to wade through from people thinking they're funny with the same joke that's been post a million times just gave me a headache.
Generally I agree, but I usually found it was the opposite way from OP's meme. The top comment was the tired regurgitated joke, and the followup comments, or the second or third top comment, were the real discussion.
It varies, but you're both right. Depends on the sub, depends on the post. In terms of the userface here on kbin, what I see lacking is a way to make a chain disappear because that mini-thread doesn't interest me. Old.reddit would let you collapse a particular comment thread, or make all child comments hidden unless called for.
-first post. Fuck you spez, for ruining reddit for me because you wanted to fuck the apps that built your site, and 5% of your users still enjoy.
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And without fucking fail, people would reply acting like it was the funniest fucking thing they've read in their lives. Like, cunt, it's one of the most overused jokes on the internet, how are you only just now seeing it?
That was definitely a source of frustration for me too. It's really annoying when you're genuinely interested in a subject and all you have available is a bunch of people who obviously don't know anything about it or care to learn.
I remember a buddy of mine telling me that he used Reddit back in maybe 2011, a couple years before I started using it and he had the dead horse circle jerk complaint about it even back then 12 years ago.
I think it was always like that.
this is how I feel too. cheers to the lurkers, they deserve some praise here because they know how to shut the fuck up every now and then 🍻
It's cathartic to hear others say it.
God forbid if you share such a sentiment on reddit... All the children line up to down vote you and whine.Yes, and then people IRL that are too online start taking on that sort of interaction as their personality. Everyone becomes a zinger incarnate.
I blame all the shills, influencers, bots and other morons with agenda, swarming and hijacking the place 24/7
You're right. I don't miss that shit hole. Everybody has to be right or they have to one up every comment. People make mistakes, no need to be a dick about it.
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Federated content aggregators haven't really reached a critical mass of users (yet).
Give it time and there'll be the insensible, the attempts at humour and all manner of low-effort comments headed this way.
Also, this being a memes magazine, I'd expect this place to get them a little sooner than more serious places. Or at least they might be tolerated a little more.
A little low-effort commentary might even be beneficial. And if not, well there's always the "reduce" arrow.
(Between the lines: It would be nice to be able to try to be funny occasionally, bad idea / bad jokes or not.)
I don’t think it’s all that egregious on joke communities, it was mostly really frustrating when comments—especially top level ones!!—were jokes/memes on serious discussion topics or something that just needed an answer.
Also replying to @palordrolap. Why not encouraging users to create constructive discussions through the magazine/community rules? I mean, every magazine/community needs a set of rules, some can be more strict and some can be more relaxed.
I always wonder how many of these comments are just bots. Lately even the stuff on the front page is rechurned memes and stuff from early COVID days and people still upvote it. Boggles my mind
what about people intentionally trying to stifle conversations, just making impossible for meaningful thoughts to be expressed. at least that's the main effect of all the dumb spam and I wonder who might want that
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This site is a bit rough for mobile. But yeah, those were ridiculous. Fucking award edits.Yea I knew it would be bad I had to quickly search for an image host that's just "upload and take the link" and just took the first one that came up basically, my bad.
Ohh that first one is viscéral. I am NOT missing those comments.
The causation and correlation people are mind numbingly dull. Correlation doesn't require causation is always my reply.
