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
@genoxidedev1
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.
I blame all the shills, influencers, bots and other morons with agenda, swarming and hijacking the place 24/7
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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.
Legitimately curious how we prevent that from happening here.
Unfortunately, it probably isn’t possible to. Unless, of course, everyone here (and I do mean everyone) is perfectly alright with the Fediverse never gaining mainstream popularity, the plain and inconvenient truth is that it’s only a matter of time until Lemmy and Kbin are infected with the same kind of shit. This phenomenon predates Reddit, it predates 4chan, it predates Digg. Ask early Usenet members 30 years ago just how far back this issue goes.
But what if, instead of trying to prevent it entirely, we simply tried to slow it down as much as possible? Now, you’re working with reality, not against it.
One idea I’ve always been in favor of has been the concept of installing limits: limited posts, limited replies, limited votes, etc. I don’t know if this is a thing that could be rolled out on an instance-per-instance basis or that, even if it could be, if it would be as effective as a platform-wide initiative, but the appeal of setting limits is to introduce scarcity and thus more weight to a user’s actions.
If you only have X number of possible actions per day, such as X number of posts, how might that affect your behavior? Would you still shitpost as often in every pun thread, upvote every repost, argue with every single troll? Probably not.
There are obviously some downsides to this as it might have a not insignificant effect on promoting genuinely good content and or punishing (downvoting to oblivion) objectively bad or offensive content – and again, at best, you’d really just be delaying the inevitable as long as possible – but I think it’s worth investigating nevertheless.
Maybe no karma idk if thats controversial but i feel like that was part of why ppl on reddit tried so hard. Or maybe only negative karma? Idk tho
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.
^This!
\s (okay, I’ll see myself out now…:-D)
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 🍻
I DiD nAzI tHaT cOmINg
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?
