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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.
I'm fine with a horribly distasteful comment, but for the love of God make it a unique horribly distasteful comment.
I also pick this guys dead wife
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
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.
@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