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All I want is that top comments under posts are something insightful and related to the post, and not just the same one liner boring jokes that keep getting upvoted for some reason.
This is not a Reddit problem as much as it's a people problem. It will happen here too over time.
There's already in-jokes about not pooping and beans.
It's an inherent problem with the way the Reddit algorithm works, and considering Lemmy's algorithm is somewhat similar, it's probably an inherent problem here too.
You usually have to read a comment before upvoting it. If it's a short pithy joke, that takes just a second. If it's a lengthy, more thoughtful comment, that might take as much as a minute to read. One person can easily upvote 10 pithy comments in the time another person upvotes 1 deep insightful one. So lower quality content will tend to drift towards the top.
Also known as the Ennui Engine:
https://medium.com/@max.p.schlienger/the-cargo-cult-of-the-ennui-engine-890c541cebcb
It’s a bit of a long read but damn is it an illuminating theory.
While we can't expect meme communities to do any better since that's what memes are supposed to be, I hope news and tech communities are better in this regard.
This is the way.
I also choose this guy's wife.
And my axe!
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It's tiring to have to scroll half a page to get to any sort of meaningful information or opinion, then scrolling past and seeing 5 more of the same "and my axe!" "OK have u tried killing it with fire???" and some other overused, boring joke that's been parroted around for about 5 years. I get that with the size of a lot of the subs there will always be people who find it funny, but...it's just kinda lame, especially on posts that are meant to generate insightful and meaningful discussion, like learning posts, or trivia posts etc.
Beans
Who could forget such intriguing comments as: "This.", or "Inb4 [x thing happens]", et al.
I would like to see novelty accounts like sprog or wildwatercolor take root again and the chains that turned into songs were fun. (Mostly because they were sporadic)
But I hope the pun threads die.
Related to his comment:
I love cute cat posts, but I hate a comment section full of "cat" comments and nothing more (or even worse, downvotes on non-cat comments).
It might have been funny the very first time, but now it's more like bullying. Yes, there might not be much to discuss on simple cat pics, but then you might as well just cut it completely. And if there actually is some validity for a comment (e.g. medical input, or just a genuine compliment, etc), it should not be downvoted just because it doesn't follow the "meme".