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I actually liked those, probably because I also do a lot of dad jokes irl. I didn't know so many people were annoyed by them.
It's mainly cos they end up being the top 3-upvoted comments on a thread asling a serious question like "[SEERIOUS] How do I not die of cancer"
Cue: Top 3 answers being puns on death or cancer. It gets irritating after a while. :/
Probs won't be a big deal on Lemmy since the comments are default-sorted by New instead of Top.
You make it sound like the real issue is people being flippant at seirous descussion, all I van say is learn to know when to nest comments and dont joke at the dieing
You can always collapse the shitty joke threads, over and over, because they never end on reddit.
No, it's not just that. That was just an extreme example.
It's more the fact evweryone seems to be training to be a stand up comedian with the lowest form of wit known to man - the pun.
Cute cat falls over - "Floof floofed".
Horse bites person - "That animal ain't horsing around"
Can we just have normal comments without everyone trying so fuckign hard to be funny? The only purpose of those try-hards is they want karma.
Notice the puns don't seem to be a thing on Lemmy? Cos karma isn't a thing!
I was a 16yr 'veteran' on Reddit. I know how the site worked and works. I can collapse comments fine and was perfectly able and knew I'd have to skip past the top 3-4 comments of a post.
The only sin bigger than the puns is the poor variety of people commenting on the ways they "spit out their coffee" at how FUNNEH said pun was. It gets tiresome. Really, really fuckign tiresome.
If you knew someone in real life who made the same jokes every 5mins, every single day - you'd probably cut them out of your life because you found them dull to be around.
That's how Reddit felt.
Guilty of this - both the dad jokes and some of my all-time upvoted comments being puns.