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What are some Redditisms that Lemmy needs to avoid? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For example, people on Reddit asking redundant questions and give equally redundant or unhelpful answers.

Whenever every 'What's the worst show you've seen?' is asked, you'll get 10,000 "Kardashians" answers, which is just easy karma farming.

If someone posts in a community that's geared for something like opinions, but someone elects to just go on a full scale rant instead.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I decided to never downvote anyone here. Debating on if that extends to bots or not though.
I've come close to breaking that rule, but I'm pretty sure I haven't yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even bots should have the error of their ways explained to them (or rather their handlers). If they don’t listen and learn then it’s time for the mods to drop the ban-hammer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've become so anti-bot recently, I don't want to see any of them here. Reddit is absolutely drowning in them. The comment stealing bots were the tipping point for me. And then seeing "content" bots here aggravated me.

It makes me wonder if I'll be an old man yelling at the damned androids when they're walking around in the future lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh right, the spam bots infested the place. I think it’s inevitable that if this place gets popular enough it’s going to suffer many of the same issues as Reddit. It’s not about the tech it’s about the people and people never change.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think/hope that without karma the incentive to spam bots won't be here. We'll see.