LemmyAtem

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do we talk about something you just encouraged everyone not to read about or discuss because it would spoil it?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yes, if anything they're more useful than ever. By not being able to see a score/like vs dislike total, or anything along those lines, your decision to up vote is completely uninfluenced, and 100% your own. That's very helpful in that it's unbiased. You might see a post with thousands of up votes and think "why bother" or "dang everyone likes thisbi should too". Without that subtle influence, you're purely up voting content that you felt was beneficial to you and others would appreciate.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm not trying to nay say or poopoo you, but the best course of action is to stop talking about/worrying about/focusing on Reddit. A wise friend once said "you'll never get over your ex if you're constantly checking on and talking/thinking about your ex."

This type of post essentially functions as a reddit stand-in for you to discuss reddit while not on reddit. That, in and of itself, is kind of self affirming for reddit. Example - you're posting this asking if anyone feels the same as you, however, by even asking it, you're also enabling people to read it and think "gee, maybe they're right and we should just cave and accept".

Instead of this type of post, focus on developing the new community you've joined. Get over your ex by moving on and focusing on the future, not thinking about what they're doing or living in the past.

Cheers

 

When I make an account there's the checkbox that says "allow NSFW content" or something along those lines. I generally don't care, but it would be SUPER helpful to be able to switch it on and off and then refresh. For example - if browsing at work, or while out and about where people might see my screen, I don't wanna click something mindlessly and have tits/porn/blood/etc on my screen. If I could turn it on and off that'd be an awesome safety valve.