At least you're a useful idiot!

It is those useless idiots that really have a hard go of it.

My problem is that it just begets more low effort posts; if people see that by making these low level comments, they are going to be rewarded with attention, then it just encourages more of that.

Additionally, on top of that, if people see that putting effort into posting thoughtful responses doesn't get the same reward, they are less likely to do so.

Ive seen it happen numerous times on reddit where small niche subs were originally very good with mostly high quality conversations and discussions, but eventually those original people got crowded out by the influx of low level posts, and many of the people simple left (it was kind of like how the universe or TrueReddit subs came about).

I get there isn't much to be done about it, or at least I can't think of it, but I still think it's important to bemoan something that is actually bad for high quality discussions.

, I bet thoughtful comments also get rewarded with further discussion in replies.

If they agree with the general opinion, sure they won't get buried, but you still have to wade through the shit to get to them.

But if it's a dissenting opinion, even if it makes logical sense, or even just has the facts straight, it will get buried.

I just miss the days that the internet wasn't just snarky low effort jokes and memes and you could actually find decent discussions.

God forbid the guy blocks users so he doesn't see "low effort" comments.

Look, it might not be true,

No, almost certainly won't be true.

And if you think it's even remotely likely that this will happen, it's not me being being myopic.