All I want is that top comments under posts are something insightful and related to the post, and not just the same one liner boring jokes that keep getting upvoted for some reason.
It’s an inherent problem with the way the Reddit algorithm works, and considering Lemmy’s algorithm is somewhat similar, it’s probably an inherent problem here too.
You usually have to read a comment before upvoting it. If it’s a short pithy joke, that takes just a second. If it’s a lengthy, more thoughtful comment, that might take as much as a minute to read. One person can easily upvote 10 pithy comments in the time another person upvotes 1 deep insightful one. So lower quality content will tend to drift towards the top.
It’s tiring to have to scroll half a page to get to any sort of meaningful information or opinion, then scrolling past and seeing 5 more of the same “and my axe!” “OK have u tried killing it with fire???” and some other overused, boring joke that’s been parroted around for about 5 years. I get that with the size of a lot of the subs there will always be people who find it funny, but…it’s just kinda lame, especially on posts that are meant to generate insightful and meaningful discussion, like learning posts, or trivia posts etc.
I would like to see novelty accounts like sprog or wildwatercolor take root again and the chains that turned into songs were fun. (Mostly because they were sporadic)
All I want is that top comments under posts are something insightful and related to the post, and not just the same one liner boring jokes that keep getting upvoted for some reason.
This is not a Reddit problem as much as it’s a people problem. It will happen here too over time.
There’s already in-jokes about not pooping and beans.
It’s an inherent problem with the way the Reddit algorithm works, and considering Lemmy’s algorithm is somewhat similar, it’s probably an inherent problem here too.
You usually have to read a comment before upvoting it. If it’s a short pithy joke, that takes just a second. If it’s a lengthy, more thoughtful comment, that might take as much as a minute to read. One person can easily upvote 10 pithy comments in the time another person upvotes 1 deep insightful one. So lower quality content will tend to drift towards the top.
Who could forget such intriguing comments as: “This.”, or “Inb4 [x thing happens]”, et al.
This is the way.
I also choose this guy’s wife.
And my axe!
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It’s tiring to have to scroll half a page to get to any sort of meaningful information or opinion, then scrolling past and seeing 5 more of the same “and my axe!” “OK have u tried killing it with fire???” and some other overused, boring joke that’s been parroted around for about 5 years. I get that with the size of a lot of the subs there will always be people who find it funny, but…it’s just kinda lame, especially on posts that are meant to generate insightful and meaningful discussion, like learning posts, or trivia posts etc.
I would like to see novelty accounts like sprog or wildwatercolor take root again and the chains that turned into songs were fun. (Mostly because they were sporadic)
But I hope the pun threads die.