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[–] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Ads

Purchased upvotes

Evil robots

you know, basic stuff

[–] weeahnn@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The state of certain subreddits was abysmal. Damnthatsinteresting, mildlyinteresting and all the others were just the same thing reposted and crossposted.

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[–] kaotic@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago
[–] ilickfrogs@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (15 children)

/s on stuff that's so obviously sarcastic. The begining of that to me was a big indicator for how stupid the reddit userbase had become.

[–] MrFlamey@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It depends how obvious, but honestly I don't think it's that bad. Some non-native English speakers might not get sarcasm, and it also depends a bit on culture. British people are a fair bit more sarcastic than Americans and it's not always obvious in text.

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[–] DrTeeth@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

So called IT experts who only know solutions by rote. If the question is out of their scope they almost always respond with “why do you want to do that? You really want to do this instead” and then promptly give you basic instructions that don’t actually answer the question.

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[–] 13esq@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mile long pun threads in posts that aren't even humourous.

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[–] Miian@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm just tired of the same old jokes. "Uh oh, his shoes fell off, he must be dead."

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[–] ImportantCat@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Rage bait, Karen videos, violence

[–] FanciestPants@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Comments that require a, "well, back on Reddit..." explanation. Could include comments about that guy's dead wife. That one kid's broken arms, etc.

[–] Sanguine@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Long pun chains

So. Much. This.

Long looping chains where the same 3 comments are repeated.

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[–] ImOnLemmyWow@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Shadowbanning.

[–] GwiwerGoch@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

A tolerance for the propagation of disinformation.

Room for disagreements is necessary, but so is stopping people who never cared about agreeing in the first place. Giving the dishonest this freedom has only silenced the honest by burdening them with layers of crap to cut through before their speech is heard.

[–] SharpMaxwell@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Power mods like that awkward turtle loser

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[–] minimar@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reposts of questions from a few days ago like this one

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[–] Whaler_Shaver@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

AskReddit topics:

"Who is a very popular and esteemed actor but actually is pretty bad at acting?"

"What's a cheap thing that is actually expensive?"

[–] PM_me_your_doggo@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Sex people of reddit who have sex, how much sexes your sex sexes?"

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[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago

Powermods who collects the title more than doing the actual moderating.

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well I saw there's already a "The Donald" type group so that's just fuckin' lovely.

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[–] dhruv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think mega threads are really useful for when you're looking for credible sources.

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[–] LurkyMcLurkface@vlemmy.net 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] kokiriflute@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Low IQ moderators who do a billion dollar corporation's work for free just because they want the smallest modicum of power.

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[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

There's nothing wrong with talking about reddit right now, it's the biggest ongoing news to all of us right now. It will never really go away in your mind, in time you'll just be indifferent towards it.

The most important thing is again, to remember what reddit did to turn into what it is, and not repeat the mistake here.

[–] AndreTelevise@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Third reply downvotes" and other types of bullying done for absolutely no reason. Also, people misleading others to disgusting communities just to troll them, for example (and I am paraphrasing the names of the communities): "misspell the community's name to c/vercute instead of c/verycute and you accidentally get a sub full of gore" or "check out c/audioing, it's definitely not people doing a very disgusting thing to one of their body parts". I do, however, like the fact they're bringing the whole subreddit swap meme - for example: on Reddit we have had r/trees and r/marijuana_enthusiasts and I've seen that implemented into Lemmy instances already. I wouldn't get rid of that, I think there are some traditions that are neat and don't harm anybody.

[–] EnderWi99in@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Single opinion echo chamber. I'm sure it'll work it's way back into the fold as folks break out into communities, but I think it's a very dangerous aspect of social media I hope we can get rid of eventually.

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[–] fiat_lux@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dehumanisation. I feel as though people are increasingly becoming ok with other people being punished for their involvement in something that is genuinely wrong/evil/bad. But the people experiencing the steepest punishments are almost never the people with significant culpability for the wrong/evil/bad decisions.

"Just following orders" might not be a great excuse, but punishing pawns for a king's choices isn't an effective deterrent or remedy either.

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[–] Voli@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I only want to see the number of upvotes and downvotes like in the olden time.

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[–] undefined@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

obligatory _

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