I loved Reddit for what it is, but nothing made me back out of a post faster than seeing the top 3 parent threads as a regurgitation of the same inside jokes, pun-chains, and so on.

  • bizzwell@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    1 年前

    For me, that was part of the charm.

    I could still find the information I needed when it was a serious query, and I could still find sound and sensitive viewpoints on many topics. But, opening a horrible post just to see a horribly distasteful comment as the first response just kept reminding me not to take life so seriously.

    • SterlingVapor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 年前

      Same. I like it, but it belongs in more shitposty communities IMO. I like a small percentage of my feed to be shitposts, and when I dig into it it’s just people repeating twists on the same stupid jokes.

      Sometimes it’s actually clever, a lot of the time it’s just people wanting reassurance they belong.

      It’s annoying when it overflows and floods everywhere with the exact same joke (like Google en passant). In r/anarchychess they were constantly workshopping new jokes, because it definitely got old

    • sotolf@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 年前

      Yeah, and you can just fold the first comment in the chain and the whole chain disappears as well, so it’s not like it’s that much in the way either.

    • petrescatraian@libranet.de
      2·
      1 年前

      @bizzwell some subreddits did have some dedicated flairs which required everyone to be serious (at the cost of being banned) - but this required the OP to deliberately think about posting the stuff under the right flair.

      Maybe this could be also easily enforced here by asking people to append [Serious Discussion] at the beginning of each relevant post, on the title or content?

      @win95