i can’t stand megathreads – no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!

  • Countess425@lemmy.world
    1541·
    2 years ago

    When people turn a popular post into an Oscars Acceptance Speech

    ETA: wow thanks for the upvotes!

    ETA2: omg my first gold award?? I couldn’t have made it without my mom and Jesus through whom all things are possible

    • Provoked Gamer@lemmy.ca
      58·
      2 years ago

      This.

      ETA: thanks for one upvote!😃

      ETA2: thanks for two upvotes!😀😀

      ETA3: woah?! 3?!?!?! thanks for three upvotes!😁😁😁

      ETA4: this is more upvotes than I have money in my bank account! thanks for four upvotes!💵💵💵

      ETA5: INASANE!!! thanks for five upvotes!😍😍😍

      ETA6: I’ve never had more than SIX!!! thanks for six upvotes! 😱😱😱😱😱

      ETA7: thanks for seven upvotes! I want to thank my mom, my brother, Jesus, Scott, Bill Gates, and my cat!!!🤗🤗

      ETA8: What? Why y’all downvoting me now? Bring it back to seven!😤😤😤

      ETA9: Unbelievable. -400 upvotes now. I lost my house, my car, and my job because of this! 😔😔😣😖😖😖😭😭

      /s

    • Psythik@lemm.ee
      4·
      2 years ago

      I also hate “happy cake day”, and “this”. Especially “this”. It’s a worthless comment that adds nothing more to the discussion than a simple upvote.

    • SGforce@lemmy.ca
      3·
      2 years ago

      I always thought that was a sign it was astroturfed. Like my post? Give Reddit money!

    • Bendersmember@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      Trick to avoiding that is to never get gold. Took me 10 years to never get gold once. I’m good at what I don’t do.

    • Stefh@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      😂 this really annoys me on Quora. I never understood why one feels the necessity to do so.

  • mamaMiata@lemmy.world
    1557·
    2 years ago

    This may be an unpopular option since I’ve already seen it across lemmy, but the ____porn communities. I’d like to browse pictures of nice landscapes or exotic cars without worry about someone around me noticing “PORN” on my screen.

    At this point it seems very old internet, something that made sense when those communities were established, but now is unnecessary gratuitous and not socially acceptable.

    • pizza_rolls@kbin.social
      102·
      2 years ago

      This is my #1 also. So many people “just asking questions”

      I also hate the circlejerk of people going “I cannot possibly comprehend being gay/trans/disabled/whatever but I let them do what they want!” They’re not aliens, you can listen to them explain what they are going through and have empathy. It’s not very complicated.

      • Magikjak@lemmy.world
        0·
        2 years ago

        I think it’s a good attitude to serve as a stepping stone away from bigotry, it appeals to the bigots by offering some common ground while giving them a path to becoming less outwardly bigoted. Social progress takes time, especially with attitudes engrained as much as homophobia used to be.

        • zalack@kbin.social
          0·
          2 years ago

          Agreed, I grew up in a very conservative area and was pretty homophobic when I started college.

          “They can do whatever they want, just don’t ask me to like it” was an important stepping stone towards “oh shit, love is love” and finally actually listening to the experience of gay people.

          • BananaTrifleViolin@kbin.social
            0·
            2 years ago

            Ultimately “live and let live” is all we can ask of anyone. If that is their attitude then they aren’t a bigot. People are expecting too much of other people now - not embracing someone does not make someone a bigot.

            Your starting position to me is honestly enough but unfortunately many people are way away from that. As a gay guy, I’d be happy with people just saying “do whatever you want want, just don’t ask me to like it”. The problem is too many people claim that with words but then actually act differently.

            • Today@lemm.ee
              1·
              2 years ago

              I don’t want to see your junk and I don’t care who you’re sleeping with. I don’t understand why that’s a hard position for people to take.

              • Niello@kbin.social
                0·
                2 years ago

                Don’t understand why you stereotyped people and basically insulted them and then wondered why people are offended? Yea? No one wants to see your fucking junk either. No, just because you’re not gay doesn’t make you any more or less likely to do what you are accusing them of.

      • Meldroc@lemmy.world
        01·
        2 years ago

        Oh don’t get me started on the sealioning from the bigots! “But we need to have more Valuable Discussion™ about my horseshit that’s been debunked a million times already!”

    • aleph@lemm.ee
      21·
      2 years ago

      r/moderatepolitics was the worst for that.

      Their moderation policy basically allowed any abhorrent view as long as it was expressed in a “civil” manner.

      Trolls and racists could say things like “well, in my humble opinion, black people are just inherently violent and unintelligent” and anyone who got irate and called them out would get a warning and/or banned.

    • galloog1@lemmy.world
      22·
      2 years ago

      There is a decent argument historically that communism and other left movements are extremist, racist, and anti-lgbtq. When you start banning concepts, you open your communities up to several things.

      1. Group think
      2. Banning of other radical ideologies that you may agree with
      3. You alienate those people from exposure to better concepts
      4. You jump start compaction cycles for large scale propaganda organizations that could lead to actual violence
  • throbbing_banjo@lemmy.world
    572·
    2 years ago

    Karma-whoring. It’s already started with the stupid “upote my can of beans” posts… Dude nobody cares about your internet points, either activity participate or fuck off to Instagram.

  • Zozano@lemmy.world
    531·
    2 years ago

    Please don’t let /c/asklemmy become like /r/askreddit, which had half of the front-page posts being the same sex related questions every month.

    “Women of reddit, what non sexual thing that guys so makes you horny?”

    “What is the sexiest thing you regret doing?”

    “How many cocks have you sucked while your cat judges you while waiting for you to feed it?”

    It was bullshit.

      • Christian@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        Gotta admit though, it was pretty cool when that subreddit simulation bot generated an askreddit thread titled something like “Redditors of Reddit, what’s the biggest mistake my mom makes in bed?”

    • ThrobbinRobin@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 years ago

      Remember this classic:

      Ladies of Reddit - what is the most sexiest thing an overweight gamer has done that made you immediately want to have sex with him/be his girlfriend?

    • darkkite@lemmy.ml
      41·
      2 years ago

      i think it’s the wrong direction to try to police questions but instead empower users with the ability to filter by text or flairs

    • asterzura@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      I don’t know why the mods of r/AskReddit still accepts these kind of posts when it would be more appropriate to do an NSFW r/AskReddit (if it doesn’t already exist).

    • Chriszz@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 years ago

      A lot of people would just upvote the first bozo to reply with a confident answer and never bother to check for the full story. Scrolling 3 comments down you’d find someone who actually knows their stuff. I learned to at least read most of the comments before committing any Reddit info to memory as fact.

    • rbhfd@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 years ago

      It’s most noticeable when the topic being discussed is your area of expertise. Then you clearly see what kind of grossly oversimplified or even blatantly false comments get made with so much confidence and upvoted.

      I tried to keep this in mind while reading stuff that I’m not an expert in, but that’s hard.

      • GONADS125@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 years ago

        Then you come out facts swinging, and despite possessing vastly more knowledge on the subject and presenting factual/cited corrections to their claims, you are the one downvoted because the userbase has already decided the false claim is more fun to believe.

        Let them continue to devolve in their cesspool. They can have it… They deserve it…

    • PostMalort@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 years ago

      Similarly asking for proof getting downvoted to hell. Asking for proof is so important online and pretty much every statement should be able to provide proof

  • Marvin42@feddit.nl
    321·
    2 years ago

    I absolutely hate the love for revenge violence. Stuff like celebration people running over protestors in their cars because they were forced to stop on the road. Or bleeding out after someone got shot when they robbed a store.

    This includes that fact that you can basically guarantee every thread contains at least one comment claiming “play stupid games, win stupid prizes”

    • FinnFooted@lemmy.world
      41·
      2 years ago

      I haaate “equal rights means equal lefts.”

      These dudes fantasize about a woman picking a fight with them so they can beat the shit out of one and have it be socially acceptable.

      • starlinguk@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        I saw one of those just before I left Reddit. A woman slapped a guy with her flat hand (they didn’t show you why) and he knocked her unconscious. And Reddit was celebrating the guy 🤮.

        • FinnFooted@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 years ago

          Riiight? Like, women shouldn’t be hitting people for sure and there should be consequential. But men celebrating that women getting knocked out gives me the creeps. Honestly, if it was anyone substantially larger knocking out someone so much weaker of any gender or age it would be wrong. Imaging a body builder knocking out an old man or a small boy? Very wrong. I think everyine could agree there. But reddit just loves to celebrate this specific brand if violence on women.

    • Chailles@lemmy.world
      01·
      2 years ago

      While that would be ideal and it makes me feel a bit gross when I catch myself thinking the same things sometimes, it’s inevitable. Retribution is one of the easiest ways to exact a punishment, violent or not.

  • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.world
    26·
    2 years ago

    Sponsored posts, banner ads, algorithms, and other advertising-industry fuckery.

    A reply that’s just “r/(some subreddit name).”

    A robot trying to sell stolen fan art printed onto t-shirts.

    People childishly self-censoring non-sweary words. “Sex” isn’t a bad word, but writing “s*x” suggests you probably shouldn’t be allowed on social media at your stage of development.