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A few examples include s*x questions on askreddit, "this" comments, nolife powermods, jokes being more frequent than actual answers

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[–] little_water_bear@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Not just frequent jokes, but those annoying ever-repeating jokes. Like as if 80% of users were the same person. Before opening any post on Reddit, there is a good chance to be able to correctly predict the exact content of a significant portion of the comments. I get that it can be funny to an individual to come across stuff like "I also choose this guys wife" or "And my axe" more than once. But for people like me, who did not just start using the website, it is really annoying to come across the same jokes literally hundreds of times.

This goes hand in hand with the general idea of a "Reddit hivemind". Depending on the subs you visit, you can see that Reddits userbase is actually really diverse. There are people from every demographic with all kinds of different life experiences. But in a lot of subs, anytime a woman is mentioned there is a flood of people acting like as if there are no women on the internet and as if no person using Reddit could have a girlfriend. Again, I get that it can be funny once or twice. But when the idea that every user must be a typical "Redditor" gets repeated all the time it's just annoying. Needless to say that I don't look forward to being called a "Lemming" on this site.

Also, repeating comments on the same post. Obviously you don't have to read all the comments if there are already hundreds of them. But if there are too many comments saying the exact same thing it just gets harder to read them all. So it would be nice if people would look whether the point they want to make maybe has been made already. They can increase that comment's visibility by upvoting. No need to make other people read the same content multiple times and by that make it harder to read different comments.

Kept scrolling to find this one. It was so tiresome to see the same joke repeated in multiple threads a day.

And I really love humor, but I'll also add that everyone upvoting the joke or pun responses until they're all at the top, and having to scroll to find the real content, was pretty annoying too.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And people immediately repeat the same patterns without understanding where they come from.

First, the difference is negligible between doing something ironically and just doing it. The "ironic" part stays with it, but becomes irrelevant almost immediately. The "/s" needs to exist for a similar reason. Generally it's just better to not make the /s comment at all, but if you're going to it should have the /s.

Second, if you have a couple hundred people read something and think the same response, one of them is probably going to type it.

Changing these things requires a culture shift where we encourage people to think about their comment adding something original rather than the first thing that comes to mind. You have to attack that root problem instead of the symptoms. Is it worth the effort?

[–] Herbstzeitlose@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

First, the difference is negligible between doing something ironically and just doing it.

You get to feel superior to people who ~don’t get it~ and think you’re being unironic. That’s really it.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nazis. Reddit has so many Nazis.

[–] resin85@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

I hate Reddit nazis.

[–] ShrimpsIsBugs@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I have exactly zero confidence that these or other bad pattern will not emerge as the community grows larger

[–] klingelstreich@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Not having appropriate tools to detect and mod auto-generated or repetitive content submitted by companies trying to influence public opinion.

[–] klingelstreich@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Asking for upvotes in the title, e.g. "upvote if you think..."

[–] flashmedallion@lemmy.nz 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Growth for growths sake.

Not just at a platform level but at a community level too. Around 6 or 7 years ago I started to really notice people talking about growing their subreddits, making changes and tools designed to increase the subscriber count.

For what? There's nothing to gain.

The main subreddit I modded finally became impossible to moderate for quality when, despite our lack of "growth strategy", the influx of new users became too much for the communitys culture to persist and it slowly turned into a lowest-common-denominator topic-flavoured meme ghetto. And from the outside I saw many of my favourite subreddits fall to the same scenario.

So I would say, we should avoid or rethink the idea of growing lemmy for its own sake. Eternal September will come eventually, lets not rush it

[–] LovelyCupcake@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Got in a few arguments about this on Reddit. Some cool niche sub where the amount of possible posts was naturally limited, but you knew each time there was a new post, it would be a good one. But then the occasional meme or "sub name taken literally" post would find it's way in, got upvoted by people just scrolling through r/all and the mods would keep it b/c "people upvoted it".

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

There is a size where niches are catered but the big flood of trash users aren't on the platform. I feel like there was a time Reddit was there, it looks not to shabby on Feddit now.

[–] DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit became too America focused. Most of the posts were about America or assumed everyone reading was American. It felt very exclusionary.

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But that were some good opportunities to dunk on the world epicenter, i've always took them

[–] shiftymccool@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What id like to see on Lemmy is less America-hate... Or just hating on countries in general. Hatable humans live in countries, let's talk about them instead of everybody in that country. "Gunshot story? Must be America!" Gets old really quick

[–] gjghkk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hate many countries, USA included. But not the people. Heck I even hate my own country.

The thing is, the people don't run those countries.

But, also I do need to mention that the laws that are being made do affect the society and their ideas.

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

This, nationalism is just the worst. You've achieved nothing by being born in a certain country, waving that flag around proudly thinking you're superior to anyone else is just something i can't understand.

[–] Tygr@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ll say the obvious… blocking WefWef and other apps that improve the user experience.

[–] MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So I understand this correctly, you're advocating for a "bad" UI "to keep out the normies?"

[–] shapesandstuff@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Read the title again, then read the comment again.

[–] MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OK, I think I understand now. There were a few words missing in there that I needed for context.

"Don't block third party apps that improve the user experience, as reddit has done." Got it.

[–] shapesandstuff@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Yeee got it :D