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.
Probably the biggest one would be needlessly hostile or mocking responses.
Sometimes it’s so hard though… It’s hard to find posts that are just slightly disagreeing… It’s always some asshole talking absolute bullshit or minimizing other people’s suffering… It’s really hard to respectfully disagree with someone who says vile shit.
Well, I did say needlessly hostile. I definitely didn’t mean that you should treat actually vile people with velvet gloves.
I’m talking more about the overall culture on Reddit where you’d have someone making some innocuous mistake and getting torn into it for it.
Although, yeah, that does also extend to general disagreements that tend to take on raised hairs where it really isn’t warranted. Like, just of the top of my head, what happens whenever someone discusses the viability of nuclear power.
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.
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.
When does the narwhal bacon?
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.
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.
So you’re basically saying reddit is mainly being used by people from 20 to 60 years. What a surprise ;)
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.
And preserving knowledge in an additional space
- Repost spam and karma farmers.
- Also the bots that simulated activity by reposting the top posts with their highest upvoted comments from a year ago.
- Cross-site/server bans because you posted in a community that the moderators of the one you are trying to post in don’t like. Sadly already happening with many servers defederating from each other.
If this hasn’t been said yet, “this is the way”
This is the way
this is the way
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?
maybe it is necessary to build an online community to have posts like that?
I’m pretty sure it is, but that bean meme was a little bit too much. On the other hand I can understand how people on this new platform are craving the feeling of community that memes and insider jokes evoke.
