A few examples include s*x questions on askreddit, “this” comments, nolife powermods, jokes being more frequent than actual answers
Why the hell is everyone against questions about sex? Are y’all prudes? There is already a serious lack of discussion about sex in this country to where online forums are the best place you can have such a discussion.
Which country are you referring to?
I guess Saudi Arabia, those guys are prudes.
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this country
Yes, everyone in the fediverse is definitely from the US 👀
No, but I know who the prudes are. You automatically knew too.
As others have stated, it’s very little to do with being “prudes” and much more with being tired of horny anonymous posters just being horny. If it were something informative, that’s a whole other thing.
The only one of those sex threads that ever made me laugh was one where they gender swapped language, from guys to gals. Bragging about the size of their massive pussy, etc etc. Really highlighted just how silly that whole song and dance is when turned on its head.
Pff, this country needs less people like you
ps: i’m from uganda
I think the whole “no life mods” thing got a bit overblown. Reddit communities flourished generally due to the ones that had good active moderation. Setting a consistent theme and tone for the subreddit and keeping the bad actors out. It takes a lot of work, they did it for free and we benefited.
The issue is when some people are mods for tons of major communities. That’s when it is overreaching.
Almost every time I saw someone complaining about the mods, I would take a gander at their comment history, and surprise surprise it was almost always full of edgelord shit.
Honestly, one of my favourite subs despite the very strict moderation (every post had to be manually approved) was r/tombstoning. Literally just images of newspaper articles where the headline and any related images/articles were very unfortunately placed. The mods basically ensured no reposts or posts that weren’t quite correct got in - so the sub basically got a reputation of only having a post every other week or so, but when you saw a tombstoning post you’d know it was quality.
/r/askhistorians had very strict mods and was better for it.
yup. Good moderation makes or breaks the community.
They needed some form of notice to users in the form of a tag at post title level when all the comments had been deleted.
Why? It was always the same answer. People posting personal takes without any credentials or cited sources.
Because of this. You would see an interesting question, and enter the thread to read the responses and comments, only to find the the whole thread had been nuked. You would only find that out once you’d clicked into the thread, so I’m saying what was needed were tags stating something to the effect of “no comments here, don’t bother”
Agreed but I do think that’s because the nature of the sub was more academic though, so having some kind of rigor makes sense. Not sure that’s the model to follow for every community
Censoring inoffensive words like sex.
mistaking dialectal differences for bad grammar
Negativity. It’s ok to criticize, but there was something about Reddit that encouraged people to bash each others until one side wins instead of agreeing to disagree and move on.
I don’t get the issue with sex questions. If people enjoy reading them and answering them why should anyone stop them. If you don’t like them, don’t click the thread.
I said this in a similar thread, and it relates to some of the comments here about echo chambers and the like.
Allowing users to suppress virality whenever the feed is sorted by “Hot” or “Active” or “Top” by weighing the value of a post by the popularity of the community it comes from. This way, posts with a small amount of upvotes from a small community can be considered as equally “Hot” as those from bigger communities.
Ideally it’s be an option in selecting the sorting of your feed, but I think even if users only use it sometimes it will help diversify feeds here … and be something Reddit never did too AFAIU.
If meta-communities were to also arrive and be combined with this, you could end up with a really powerful set of feed controls.
EDIT: spelling (vitality -> virality)
I have exactly zero confidence that these or other bad pattern will not emerge as the community grows larger
If you can’t even get yourself to write the word sex, the questions on askreddit were probably not the issue…
It’s not so much a dark pattern, but an emergent property of the upvote system: usually the first commenters tended to have an advantage and late good comments actually would never get enough exposure to float to the top.
Karma farmers would just sit at “new”, spam comments and get visibility for joke and outrage comments.
The solution may be to randomly order comments below a certain threshold and/or within an upvote range.
Calling everyone who disagrees with you a Nazi or fascist. It’s already starting.
You do spend a lot of time parroting made up things about people.
Maybe don’t walk the duck walk if you don’t want to get called a Nazi?
Thing is, Im not. Its just normal shit like “we should heavily punish companies who hire illegal immigrants”
Thats no where near being a Nazis.
https://lemmy.world/comment/823087
There’s some terf shit.
Like grow some empathy. Hormone treatment isn’t for transitioning. It’s for reducing morbidity in patients and is prescribed on that basis. Fear mongering side effects is the same as poo pooing chemo because it makes your hair fall out.
If you are sad that your bigot opinions get you called a nazi, maybe it’s on you not to share these opinions. I don’t go chewing my clients ear off about startrek, it’s the same principal they aren’t a welcoming audience.
Maybe if you are still going to talk about these things, contrast the things with middling results to the things with the best results, not some boogeyman unknowns.
To be a TERF, I would have to be a radical feminist, which I’m not.
If I sing Klingon battle songs it doesn’t make me a Klingon either.
https://lemmy.world/comment/919801
Claiming BLM protests were violent? Verifiably false and propaganda.
A dozen people died. A lot more were injured. How were they not violent?
Actually, scratch that. Define violence.
I don’t need to educate you, do it yourself.
Per capita, more people are assaulted at protests in front of abortion clinics. Or on public transit. It’s propaganda and parroting it is the reason people will call you a nazi.
I didn’t ask you to educate me. I asked you what you thought violence is. It certainly doesn’t line up with the rest of us.
didn’t ask you to educate me
Ok
asked you what you thought violence is
Very philosophical for a non-educational discussion /s
Reddit started to feel extremely consumerist after the mid-2010s, which I always kind of assumed had to do with the general demographic of users largely being people having disposable income for the first time in their lives. It’s hard to describe exactly, but there was a general feeling of fandom around specific corporations that just felt weird to me. I’d like to see more distrust of corporations in general here.
Reddit also felt very Centrist to me, with discussion being this golden ideal. I have no time for discussions with people on the right pretending to argue in good faith and people eating that up.
Also, as someone who doesn’t know much about China or have much love for it, the Sinophobia in unrelated threads was weird, too.
So far most of these have stayed away from Lemmy, but I see some creeping up here and there. The communities here seem generally good at keeping them down, though.
This.
I’m a linux developer of 25+ years and I’m permanently banned from /r/linux because I dared criticize systemd.
My answer is therefore: Power-tripping mods. Where mods are required, ensure the community has the ability to oust them.
Rampart…
