I like the overall lack of in-jokes I’ve encountered here so far, and I want things to stay that way. This might be an unrealistic thing to hope for, but I like good, pure, discussion, as boring as that may be for some people.

  • BeePlusPlus@beehaw.org
    78·
    1 year ago

    I’m not a fan of the pun chains that somehow always ended up at the top of any Reddit comment thread

    There could be a post about electricity and one of the top threads will have a joke about Watts, amps, shock, resistance, ohms, and other electric terms. The least they could have done is use Siemens, but it’s always basic wordplay that anyone can think of

    And the worst part is that pun threads can be found any post regardless of the gravity of the situation. Titty post? Puns. Mundane news? Puns. A post of an innocent person being wrongly executed by electrocution? Puns.

    Everyone thinks they are/wants to be a comedian, and they’d rather post a low quality joke than to add to the discussion or not say anything at all

    • Kichae@kbin.social
      18·
      1 year ago

      This is an artifact of having very large forums. With such a large number of people commenting on the same posts, people start making bids for attention, rather than actually commenting on the OP. Stuff that gets the most attention, rather than furthers discussion floats to the top, and people then comment on that in order to be seen.

      This behaviour then filters down to smaller spaces.

      If you don’t want this kind of thing to happen here, participate in smaller communities. Resist the pull of community centralization.

    • Suedeltica@kbin.social
      9·
      1 year ago

      I thought I was the only joyless curmudgeon who disliked the pun threads! I feel validated by your post and I appreciate it.

      I bet, like, the very first pun thread on reddit was spontaneous and reasonably entertaining but then like anything else that got a laugh one time it got suplexed into oblivion almost immediately.

      • May@kbin.social
        5·
        1 year ago

        Yea and usually I like funny stuff and I laugh REAAAALLY easily but I got kinda annoyed by the Reddit jokes that are so repetitive and I was like “am i becoming grumpy or smth?” I guess not! lol

        • mrbigmouth502@kbin.socialOP
          9·
          1 year ago

          That’s the biggest problem with Reddit jokes tbh. They don’t just beat dead horses, they atomize them.

    • deadcream@kbin.social
      6·
      1 year ago

      Honestly I think kbin (and lemmy) should default to sort comments by “old”. I started using this for reddit some time ago and it’s such a breath of fresh air. Also I think it better represents actual population of communities (of course it highlights both good and bad parts of it). Funniest thing is there are still puns - only instead of upvoted chains you see dozens (or hundreds) of the same unsuccessful attempts to start these chains by would-be “comedians”, which is hilarious. This definitely helped me to understand on which subreddit comments are useless, and saved a lot of my time.

          • tjhart85@kbin.social
            8·
            1 year ago

            Reddit used to say ‘the real life pro tip is always in the comments’ or something to that effect.

            Why shouldn’t a comment that contributed, was genuinely useful or corrected information given by the post be able to naturally rise to the top?

            I understand that we don’t want “This is the way!” to become the highest top rated comment, but, in most threads useful top level comments get highlighted and off-top/factually incorrect/morally repugnant ones get punted to the bottom and ones that came late to the conversation are just floating in the middle (as compared to being at the end where chances of them ever being seen are even lower).

          • Saganastic@kbin.social
            3·
            1 year ago

            There are many forums that already have a flat design like that. The appeal of reddit or reddit-like forums is that useful information bubbles its way up to the top. This allows users to find the highest quality posts with the minimum amount of effort.

            It also let’s users show their appreciation for a post by upvoting it, or label a post as spam/garbage by down voting it.

    • Usernameblankface@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Although I did enjoy those puns chains, I wouldn’t mind leaving them behind. I imagine they would be best in their own little part of this Fediverse world. Someplace where people bring in any odd post and challenge each other to make the longest chain of puns, but out of sight for the majority of people who are seeing the posts.

      But whatever, they can stay in Reddit if the want to do pun chains, it just doesn’t fit the mood over here.

  • daniel@lemmy.world
    56·
    1 year ago

    The whole “Let’s not poop for 72 hours” meme from Lemmy is easily Reddit tier dumb humor and it’s been beaten to death over the last few days.

    • mrbigmouth502@kbin.socialOP
      5·
      1 year ago

      I’ll admit, I haven’t looked at the Lemmy side of things too much, so my perspective is skewed. I saw a couple comments relating to that joke beforehand, but so far I haven’t seen it too much here.

    • Jon-H558@kbin.social
      5·
      1 year ago

      Yep.the starting a “other side” or meta thread is somthing only really started on Reddit in last few years and just annoys and takes away real comment.

      Like somome will post about their annoying neighbour…then people appear pretending* to be that neighbour or worker or even the neighbours dog…it just gets confusing as to which is the real post and is dumbfuckery of the highest order.

  • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
    44·
    1 year ago

    The in jokes and general comment culture on Reddit was one of my favourite parts. Usually made me laugh, some really good ones would make me laugh to the point of tears. I think that in jokes are a symptom of community.

  • BrambleDog@kbin.social
    13·
    1 year ago

    Reading /world news yesterday was quite sobering if I had any thoughts about going back to reddit.

    Suddenly, calling a man Pringles was the height of humor and almost 0 informed discussion happening in the megathread and the people who were being serious kept getting drowned out by Pringles jokes.

  • gnp@kbin.social
    11·
    1 year ago

    I also want to see This and This is the way die a fiery death. So annoying. It seemed like no one could think for themselves on Reddit.

    • Tigbitties@kbin.social
      5·
      1 year ago

      I used to play a game with myself trying to guess the top comment of Reddit posts. If it wasn’t the first it my guess was at least 5-6 post down way too many times.

    • Drusas@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      So much agreed. They add nothing to the conversation yet always get upvoted. Instant downvote from me. And that’s one thing downvoting is actually meant for–content that adds nothing of value.

  • --@kbin.social
    11·
    1 year ago

    It’s inevitable really. Once the site grows, the number of people who think their funny will too. The best thing your can do is dislike it and ignore.

      • FistfulOfStars@kbin.social
        9·
        1 year ago

        I remember when they changed that.

        The first time I downvoted an asinine, irrelevant comment and watched the vote count turn blue but stay at “24k” it really felt like I was personally being told that I wasn’t welcome there anymore. It was a reminder that my opinion didn’t matter.

        • mrbigmouth502@kbin.socialOP
          2·
          1 year ago

          How long ago did Reddit change that? I didn’t join that site until 2015, so I missed the early days.

          Whatever the case, I hope we keep upvotes and downvotes separate here.

            • mrbigmouth502@kbin.socialOP
              1·
              1 year ago

              Not sure tbh. When I reply to people on here, I don’t usually mention them. I guess if it’s doing it for you automatically, then that’s how it’s supposed to work, idk.

  • b1_@kbin.social
    7·
    1 year ago

    It seems like you’re in the wrong Fediverse instance. I think beehaw makes an attempt to keep it serious and on point, with more moderation.

    Also try tildes, which has a very interesting voting system where you can attach a tag to your upvotes or downvotes, such as ‘noise’ or ‘off topic’ or ‘joke’, and overall vote score gets reduced - not sure exactly how it works. (Tildes is not part of the Fediverse though, if I recall, it’s stand alone site like reddit.)

    Both those may be invite only.

    On reddit there is a subreddit of r/WorldNews called r/WorldNews_Serious which moderates out the jokes and trivial discussion, so look out for those communities to popup in the Fediverse.

    I don’t mind jokes, even the bad ones - it shows these people are at least cheerful and upbeat even with the world not doing so great atm. If you think the joke is lame, that’s what the downvote is for, so use it would be my advice.

    • ChrisHarris@kbin.social
      7·
      1 year ago

      Honestly, I think other reddit alternatives could benefit from adding something like the labels from Tildes (exemplary, off-topic, joke, noise, malice) in order to create sorting algorithms for different types of users/communities.

      It could, for example, allow people who are tired of the constant jokes to have comments which get labeled as jokes sorted lower, which could even be the default in communities intended for serious discussion… or you could do the opposite and sort funny comments to the top when jokes are the purpose.

    • mrbigmouth502@kbin.socialOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      I might have to look into Beehaw then, and see what I think of it. Not sure what I think of having more moderation though.

      • 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org
        0·
        1 year ago

        I think active moderation is about the only way to discourage bad behaviour on the internet.

        Allowed to run free, trolls and racists quickly take over any online space by discouraging decent people from participating.

    • 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      tildes, which has a very interesting voting system where you can attach a tag to your upvotes or downvotes, such as ‘noise’ or ‘off topic’ or ‘joke’

      Oh wow. I didn’t realize they were using the slashdot system.

      That’s the first thing that makes me slightly tempted to try out tildes.

  • sectorfour@kbin.social
    5·
    1 year ago

    I liked Reddit much more 10 years ago when it was smaller. Less of a hive mind echo. I keep federation turned off to enjoy the smaller kbin community. It looks like the majority went to Lemmy and I am just fine with that.