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i can't stand megathreads -- no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!

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[–] Whaler_Shaver@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

AskReddit topics:

"Who is a very popular and esteemed actor but actually is pretty bad at acting?"

"What's a cheap thing that is actually expensive?"

[–] CustodialTeapot@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Bots. Endless bots where you don't know if the comment or post is a real person. Sign ups need a barrier to filter out bots.

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I happen to love megathreads. When a major breaking news happens I want to discuss it with the community, not read a dozen smaller threads repeating the same.

[–] Gyella@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[–] tebessa@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Just less outrage, more harmony.

[–] Q320@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I also choose this guy's

[–] Burstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was going to say 'a community full of really simple questions that should have just been queried via a search engine' (this post is a pleasant exception to what I'm used to ftr), but then I saw what community this was so my final answer will be: Onlyfans ads poorly disguised as relevant material for whatever community.

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[–] Gorbachof@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Unoriginal and boring "ask" threads

[–] ettyblatant@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Paywall articles, or articles from "news sites" that are all opinion pieces marauding as factual reporting

[–] IronicViking@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

All the “helpful” bots filling the comments with annoying messages.

[–] RealNooshie@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

RPAN or something like that. I don't know why I would go to Reddit for livestreams. I certainly wouldn't come to Lemmy for it, either.

[–] SoyTDI@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I don't care about ads on Reddit. They aren't intrusive, although I don't like fake "organic content". I think the worst thing is seeing the same thing over and over again in the same sub, being reposted by bots. It's OK if it's from time to time, but they don't even try to change the title.

[–] BBloggsbott@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

r/Piracy’s megathread was very useful

[–] fiat_lux@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] BornOnJuly1@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

“What the title says…” I hate when people start the body of their post referring to the title of the post as if isn’t self-explanatory, that the two are related.

[–] golamas1999@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Crappy UI Design

[–] youngalfred@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

'story time!'

[–] Jourei@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

The "obligatory" jokes, copypasted every time someone writes a certain thing. I would always downvote them. I am thinking about blocking users that continue that here.

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[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I realize this basically makes me satan to a lot of redditors so I never talked about it over there, but I HATED the whole cutesy schmoopsy poem shtick a couple of users would do that everyone would upvote to the top of a handful of threads every day. An AI could be churning out that saccharine doggo speak and nobody would ever know the difference, but people go nuts for it.

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

Sprog is doing high art, and you can't convince me otherwise. No AI will never achieve the levels of comedic prowess this person has

[–] littlecolt@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Communities as hashtags.

You know what I want to see start, though? /r/switcharoo. Please please please we need to somehow start a good ol Lemmy switcharoo.

[–] JshKlsn@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Hatred towards emojis.

Reddit downvotes anything with emojis. Like why? Do you guys not have friends? Everyone uses emojis these days when texting.

I will admit I used them WAY less before I started dating my girlfriend, but if you try to be social in any way, you will need to just accept emojis.

Plus they look cute, and convey emotions. Not sure what there is to hate? 🤔

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[–] UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

The

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Michael Scott

That stuff, it's so dumb.

Also, "Username checks out"

[–] Poob@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Posting clips of TV shows to places like r/funny

[–] fiat_lux@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dehumanisation. I feel as though people are increasingly becoming ok with other people being punished for their involvement in something that is genuinely wrong/evil/bad. But the people experiencing the steepest punishments are almost never the people with significant culpability for the wrong/evil/bad decisions.

"Just following orders" might not be a great excuse, but punishing pawns for a king's choices isn't an effective deterrent or remedy either.

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[–] UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Toddlerisms like danger noodle (snakes) or velvet hippos (pitbulls I think)

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