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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.
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I stopped using upvotes/downvotes at all on Reddit. Unless you were on New, exclusively, it didn't matter how often you got on Reddit, anything you were seeing was at least fifteen hours old. Any conversation was already done. Any up/downvotes you put in wouldn't matter at all and probably just got ignored by the system. Anything you had to say would only appear to you, in reality it just dropped to the bottom of the sea, never again to be seen. Thousands had already spoken, somehow, and you were just walking through a snapshot of the past, already said and done.
For now, it's much smaller here. Sometimes I find myself upvoting a post just to let the person know that somebody actually came in here and gave a fuck about what they had to say, that they aren't talking to themselves in an empty room.
It makes sense to care a bit more, for a lot of reasons. We'll see how long that vibe can sustain itself.
My feeling exactly. Smaller communities nurture much more healthier engagement than bigger ones
Sure, for the main subs. But the smaller subs for hobbies (for example) didn't have this issue.
I didn't vote much either, though. So many posts were karma farmers reposting old material.
It's arguably so easy to "farm karma" that I accidentally did it for a while. Just kept posting silly puns to reply to stuff people post on the Florida Man subreddit.
Reddit karma ain't worth much at all.
Friend, yesssssss!
Here it feels like interacting with the community matters. A comment will be one of ten or a hundred, not ten thousand or hundred thousand. Comment chains between two people with different views can be discussions, instead of flamewars where one person is dogpiled for disagreeing with the thread.
Let's all enjoy what we have here before it gets overtaken by chuds and/or AI :)
Don't forget mods hiding your posts without a trace! There is no way from the reddit interface to tell.
Lost the link, but there's a site that shows all the posts you made that were hidden from the rest of the sub. LOL, they even let the guy do an AMA!
I was more than a little stunned. Dozens of posts, just gone, very recently, and I had no idea. Nothing controversial, nothing crazy, and for sure nothing right-wing that might have triggered any liberal mods. I'm certain someone was following me around, reporting everything they might get traction on, hiding my posts. All very disconcerting.
Just posted about being banned for "inciting violence" for the 3rd time in 2-months. And I'm now a lunatic after 11-years without issue? Not like I can see what I was banned for, or even appeal.
I'm out. How are you folks?