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I'm glad there's fewer 'comedians' here (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was Reddit earlier and viewing one of question subs. The top 5 comments were all 'jokes'.

What's worse is no matter how unfunny the top jokes are you'll get hundreds of cold comments flogging the joke to death.

The 6th top comment actually answered the question.

Lemmy may not have as much content but what is here is so much better quality.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

Most commentators there are playing to the gallery rather than answering the questions. The size of the question subs actually makes it harder to get a good answer.

The best karma return per comment is not to craft a lengthy, thoughtful reply but to fire of a snappy one liner as fast as possible.

What I have written is also not inciteful or original. It has been well know for a long time and is pretty much a factor of sub size and the demographic spread of the user base (which skews young, cis, male and american).

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

This is the crux of it.

I was so unbelievably sick of the rote comments (bAnAnA fOr ScAlE?!?), and edgelord opinions, and half-formed trains of thought that overlook a lot of the nuances of whatever is being discussed.

Lemmy is a lot better by miles.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

* insightful. Unless you actually mean to encourage a mob, in which case, carry on!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Sometimes, a spelling mistake can be strangely insightful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You're trying to incite insight.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I love the lack of karma / aggregate points on Lemmy. I hope they never add it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The trick is that people can talk however they like, but they cannot mandate that a particular comment rise to the top of a particular scoring scheme. If commentors and voters would both use discretion based on the magazine they are in... but that is a moot point bc that won't happen either.

Short of something like a separate voting scheme (was this comment (a) popular or (b) insightful? or maybe both types can be up/down-voted independently; but then you could sort by either one or the other), I think it will just continue to happen here, even if less overwhelming than on Reddit, due to both different audiences and scales of population.