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I Hope Rexxitors Tone Down the Low-Hanging Comment Chains on Lemmy. (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

For me, that was part of the charm.

I could still find the information I needed when it was a serious query, and I could still find sound and sensitive viewpoints on many topics. But, opening a horrible post just to see a horribly distasteful comment as the first response just kept reminding me not to take life so seriously.

[–] captain_americano 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm fine with a horribly distasteful comment, but for the love of God make it a unique horribly distasteful comment.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I also pick this guys dead wife

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Same. I like it, but it belongs in more shitposty communities IMO. I like a small percentage of my feed to be shitposts, and when I dig into it it's just people repeating twists on the same stupid jokes.

Sometimes it's actually clever, a lot of the time it's just people wanting reassurance they belong.

It's annoying when it overflows and floods everywhere with the exact same joke (like Google en passant). In r/anarchychess they were constantly workshopping new jokes, because it definitely got old

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

@bizzwell some subreddits did have some dedicated flairs which required everyone to be serious (at the cost of being banned) - but this required the OP to deliberately think about posting the stuff under the right flair.

Maybe this could be also easily enforced here by asking people to append [Serious Discussion] at the beginning of each relevant post, on the title or content?

@win95

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, and you can just fold the first comment in the chain and the whole chain disappears as well, so it's not like it's that much in the way either.