I loved Reddit for what it is, but nothing made me back out of a post faster than seeing the top 3 parent threads as a regurgitation of the same inside jokes, pun-chains, and so on.

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[–] zkxs@lemmy.sdf.org 51 points 1 year ago (20 children)

~~you have my updoot~~

I jest. Ultimately without some sort of mechanic that disincentivizes noisy, low-effort joke comments there's not going to be some sort of magical cultural shift. I'm just arriving, but from what I'm seeing Lemmy doesn't have any sort of design that will skew comments towards actual discussion and away from jokes/noise in any meaningful way.

[–] win95@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yeah, I was thinking of having some sort of feature that pre-builds thread topics in a post (humor, discussion, cross-searching) where users can put there comments in depending on what it is they're going for.

[–] zkxs@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm also eyeballing Tildes as a Reddit alternative, and their dev has an interesting approach to increasing signal-to-noise ratio. They don't have downvotes, but they have labels that affect how comments are sorted, with the joke and noise labels moving comments down in the sort by a pretty significant amount.

[–] mobiuscoffee@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't Slashdot kind of work like that?

[–] zurohki@lemmy.fmhy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

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