Ask Lemmy

The endless reposting

I'd love more political debate without censorship from either side. I want to hear every argument either side has, even if the argument is dumb. I want to hear the rebuttals people give for the beliefs I have, because that is the only way to check myself.

I would like regulation for these discussions to be more about personal insults, rather than if an idea is deemed too offensive or not (which is arbitrary to begin with). When a debate devolves into insults, there's no point in continuing the conversation anyway.

Sorting by controversial. It became an unhealthy habit for me. Almost like I was enjoying my anger.

“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.

Businesses, Celebrities, Internet "personalities", parasocial relationships. Anything that turns things into a popularity contest rather than genuine 1 to 1 conversation.

Reddit culture.

Prison rape jokes.

people bot-posting for karma or similar bullshit

/r/jailbait 🤮

People commenting the next part of a song.

It didn't bother me until someone else pointed out that it's pretty cringe, and ever since then I absolutely agree. Like why? We understand you know the lyrics of a very popular song. Why do you need to play a long and type comment the next verse?

Any more beans.

Reposts, and people repeating the same tired jokes over and over.

Mass downvotes for saying anything that goes against a set narrative and that annoying oh no song.

Ads and rage bait content farm

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/u/Spez

Toxic gatekeeping in communities.

The swamps of Degobah.

I really hope that the political communities don't devolve into just useless name calling.

What I like are the comments that discuss the nuances of politics. Why things happen the way they do and the strategies, OR even other people's takes on a topic.

What Reddit turned into was is an ass or is <Stupid/fascists/baby killers> Or is too old and stupid. Nothing of substance just writing the same thing someone else wrote in the last post. Got really boring.

"Thanks for the gold kind stranger!"

all the excessive awards

people making entire threads of stupid puns

typing out song lyrics

that dumb broken arms thing

Snarkiness, snobbery, walking on eggshells, opinion downvotes and in general the unbearable attitude of most redditors.

Power Mad Mods. The ones in r/StarTrek were horrible, banning people for any “negativity” and actually banning people for what they said in other subreddits.