For example, people on Reddit asking redundant questions and give equally redundant or unhelpful answers.
Whenever every ‘What’s the worst show you’ve seen?’ is asked, you’ll get 10,000 “Kardashians” answers, which is just easy karma farming.
If someone posts in a community that’s geared for something like opinions, but someone elects to just go on a full scale rant instead.
Questions like “When you’re sexing some sexy sex, how many sex do you sex?”
Let’s keep the immature high school/sad old desperate man horniness out of here.
Jesus, yes. I can’t tell you how many subreddits got swamped with high-school leveled questions about sex.
Especially in TooAfraidToAsk, which is supposed to be about questions that’d normally be about trying to ask taboo things to get a discussion. But no, you’ll come across questions like “if there is no porn to look at, what do you look at instead while jerking off in the shower?”. Like, besides trolls, who the hell comes up with some questions like that? Let’s not forget the abundance of people, showcasing the lack of sexual education, asking if they’d get HPV by doing this or HIV by doing that.
I feel bad because clearly these poorly educated teenagers need answers to these questions. But it really drags down the level of discourse.
And not just regarding sex, but any other “oh you’re obviously 14” takes.
Makes you wonder if the loads of stupid sex questions has anything to do with the lack of proper sex education in schools.
Some of them were from perpetually horny adults like myself but we usually self-quarantined at r/askredditafterdark
Ah, yes…I posted on that one for a time.
I don’t know, man.
Teenagers are going to be horny no matter the level of education. I just think it’s exciting for them to have “real” people answering their questions, a distinctly different experience than asking the teacher in sex-ed, more private too.
Reddit seems like it is largely made up of two main demographics. It’s either people in their 30’s, 40’s, 50’s who were there since the site’s launch (me) or teenagers to early/mid 20’s. The latter has a big reach on the site right now.
who the hell comes up with some questions like that?
I mean the obvious answer is of course young teenagers, especially if their family has a uncomfortable relation to sexuality.
Adding to this, I’d love to never see the phrase “Sexy Time” ever again
Ugh there are so many phrases I cannot stand from reddit. “thanks for the gold kind stranger” makes me want to throw my computer out of the window.
“RIP my inbox”, “How do I delete someone else’s comment”, etc
How can I give you gold to this comment fellow redditor
I wish I could upvote this twice.
(I meant this as a reference to people saying that on reddit)
I saw one today on that Reddit bot instance of Lemmy titled:
“I like the smell of my vagnina after my boyfriend cums in me.”
I’m not sure if it’s bored teenagers, bots or straight up dumb asses that are posting that garbage, nor why.
I hope this was a mistype. :(
Every single time I think about reddit, that picture of a past reddit meet-up appears in my head. 99% were fat, disgenetic, unappealing, unhealthy, weird looking people.
i don’t know… i see a few people using reddit on public transit and they look alright. I find that kind of disingenuous
This stereotype has stemmed from the amount of neckbeard incelish redditors that hate on women more than anything
The different Reddit meetups I had gone to weren’t like that. But after that picture it became nearly impossible to get a meetup going.
It was a shame because that seemed to kill meetups. I had been to a couple up to that point, they didn’t look like that and were a lot of fun.
I forgot about that pic! Nightmare fuel!
Going to a sub of strictly like minded people and posting popular opinions for karma.
“Thanks for the gold” and other “Edit: this blew up” type bullshit.
Any time someone says “obligatory [anything]” I want to scream.
Unpopular opinion: [incredibly popular opinion]
+67,000 upvotes
That’s the fate of, ironically, a subreddit called UNPOPULARopinions.
“Beyonce is overrated!” - just throw them the lifetime achievement award for “unpopular”. /s
Because of user karma. Even a fake incentive to say things that everyone likes beyond normal social pressure creates a bunch of people who eagerly say inane shit to get moar doots.
Between that, and just hate, I stayed on that sub for maybe a couple of hours.
Oh God I hope award speech edits don’t make it over here
This
/s
I used to use /s all the time over at Reddit - especially in political discussions. If I posted sarcastically “advocating” for something, I didn’t want people to misread the post and think I seriously supported that thing.
Normally, I could trust that people would pick up on the sarcasm, but it’s hard over text and there were people actually advocating for the horrible stuff. I didn’t want to be mistaken for one of them, so I’d add a /s. It definitely ruined the joke, but I’d rather do that than have someone think I was racist/sexist/bigoted/etc.
Sometimes the /s is necessary. It’s difficult to convey sarcasm in writing.
Why is posting this ironically any better than posting it unironically?
It’s one of the thing I don’t miss. Using it the “correct way” is supposed to hurt your eyes. /s for the people who don’t get it.
I get the others, but why that last one?
Think of it like this. When humans talk to humans, is any joke ever obligatory? It’s “that’s what she said” any time anything vaguely prurient gets mentioned.
Now imagine if they said “I’m obligated to tell you that’s what she said.” Do you see how they’ve added a tragic undercut to a comment that already wasn’t funny?
People should not do this.
To be frank, I still don’t get it, but I also hardly qualify as a human to begin with.
It’s overrated, you’re doing great
I would say circlejerking. The Bean meme was very Reddit like, but maybe it is necessary to build an online community to have posts like that?
I kind of enjoy the circlejerking to an extent. It’s like watching fads come and go in real time, and I like seeing these dumb memes evolve over a week or two before disappearing
Circlejerking is incredibly fucking stupid, but I eat up stupid humour like candy so I personally support it. As long as serious/discussion spaces don’t get contaminated, ofc
The bean thing felt very cringey and forced imo
I’m glad that’s over. I would hate it when whole subreddits would get taken over with an inside joke for days at a time.
Reposting.
There’s two kinds of resposting:
“honest” resposting that happens when the OP hasn’t seen his submission previously posted.
karma-whore resposting that happens when someone wants to get those sweet internet points.
Without karma the second one may not be a problem at all ¯\(ツ)/¯
I’ve gotten pegged by people when I reposted something I knew very well, hadn’t been posted within a year’s timeframe. Like, what’s the problem with that? It hasn’t been seen in so long so yeah it’ll be reposted.
Unlike with your second scenario, I’ve seen posts crop up within the same day and they’re all gratified and praised like as if people hadn’t seen them before when their short attention spans fail to tell them that they did see it before very recently.
Could’ve been different people. This happened all the time with me seeing something for the first time in my life, while comments were full of complaints of it being reposted once a week.
Karma-whoring is especially bad when it’s just all bots doing it. There were many instances where even comments on karma posts were bot generated. Upvotes were much likely bot generated too.
Destroys the human element.
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Reposting
Have an upvote and absolutely meaningless award in form of an icon that I need to pay for first. Kind sir.
Slightly altering a repost to make it seem new
Making same joke but worse
And my cutting tool that consists of a heavy edged head fixed to a handle with the edge parallel to the handle
Shutting down questions with any variation “just Google it” It always irks me when someone goes “bro you know Google exists right” like if I wanted to Google it I wouldn’t be asking it here
Sometimes the question isn’t about the answer but about the interaction.
Often times google led you there and you get this answer. Love that.
People also forget that Google doesn’t give the same results for everyone. Sure you could use incognito mode, but how many people are going to do that when they’re looking for normal stuff?
How’s about they stop trying to migrate Reddit subs over to Lemmy as communities? That would be nice. I don’t want a Reddit substitute. I want a new thing that puts Reddit entirely in the past. I want a fresh start, not a Reddit clone. Reddit sucked for a lot of reasons. I could go on and on. Stop replying to comments with “this” as well. But, mostly, I’d like to see people from Reddit moving over to here with zero Reddit nostalgia. Say goodbye to your favorite Reddit subs, stop trying to re-create them over here in the Fediverse. Instead, have some imagination and create new, original communities and kick the whole Reddit vibe to the curb for once and for all.
Disagree — while the larger communities tended to get kind of lame, Reddit’s smaller communities were quite worthwhile. I want that to continue, just not on Reddit.
I’m really not talking about smaller communities. I’m talking about the ones that made the Reddit brand. Like AITA, for example. A lot of the smaller communities could be discussion boards anywhere because they’re so small and they are a niche. If there was an Aardvark Lovers sub on Reddit, I’m all in for an Aardvark Lovers sub on Lemmy. Do I really want to see a lot of the same big subs? No. A lot of what I see on YSK is stuff I don’t need to know, don’t care about, didn’t change my life or affect me at all, whether it’s on Reddit or Lemmy. My point, which you did not get, is that I don’t want a Reddit clone.
We definitely need a little bit of the cloning and imagination - to get the niche communities on here - which was what I actually used reddit for mostly. The rest was background noise/scrolling.
Why not recreate subs as communities? Sure assume subs could maybe be consolidated into a single community, but other time subs seemed to act just like communities here. Is there some aspect of communities in not seeing/ understanding? Or is that moreso just your opinion?
I just don’t like the trend toward a Reddit clone. People should be more imaginative. Do we really need a “You Should Know” community? Not useful to me. Come up with something better, re-spin it and improve on it. Really could do without “AITA”. Smaller subs, as I said in a previous reply, are so specific that if they get repeated on Lemmy, it’s not really that they were repeated from Reddit. Like, let’s say a lot of people on Reddit like Aardvarks and had a sub about their devotion to Aardvarks. Having a community for that on Lemmy is not the same thing as having a clone of “You Should Know.” There are certain subs on Reddit that inadvertently contributed to creating a Reddit brand. I could do without those.
Some people want these communities here. There’s nothing stopping you from blocking those communities.
“Just block it” doesn’t solve the problem of the overall tone of the community changing.
Considering YSK has given me valuable information, even about Lemmy itself, I appreciate it.
Asking why they’re being downvoted when they clearly have more upvotes. Also, starting a comment with “I’m going to get downvoted for this but”.
The SFW porn network needs not to be called the SFW porn network. No communities named CarPorn or UniformPorn or, worse, AbandonedPorn or AnimalPorn.
I always hated those names!
Edit: added a word and comma.
Edit 1: wow guys thank you so much.
Edit 2: Rip my inbox.
Edit 3: Ok guys Im going to sleep.
Pointless comment trying to be a contrarian to just add /s at the end.
Shut the fuck up
I appreciate a little footnote to explain what was edited, but yes to all the rest
EDIT: i just commented this, right now.
THIS
THAT
THEM?
T H E Y
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^ this
edit: take my upvote
[BLANKS] of Lemmy: “what’s the sexiest sex you’ve ever sexed?”
Power moderators. There is no justifiable reason for one person to own hundreds of major subs.
The problem there is finding someone else to do the work for free.
If someone is a mod of more than a handful of forums/subs/mags/whatever I kind of doubt they’re able to dedicate enough time to mod properly anyway.
It just became a thing to collect to show you were part of the “in” crowd.
The only justification I could think of is someone providing CSS services to different subs. Instead of modding/demodding for every issue, they just stay on and work as needed.
Having spez as CEO
/r/EnoughXSpam
What is the point of a community about hating seeing spam of a certain topic if all the community does is spam about the topic?
Underrated comment. I understand making a comment every now and then that’s negative (people should be free to reasonably complain) but whole subs devoted to hating on something create the most toxic environments and echo chambers on the internet while inadvertently contributing to the popularity of the thing they hate. The universe grows what you give attention to so I think its best to focus your attention on things you love instead of what you hate.
This. So much this.
