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Reddit's in-jokes and overall sense of "humor" are lame and I don't want to see them migrate to Kbin. (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by mrbigmouth502@kbin.social to c/unpopularopinion@kbin.social

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I like the overall lack of in-jokes I've encountered here so far, and I want things to stay that way. This might be an unrealistic thing to hope for, but I like good, pure, discussion, as boring as that may be for some people.

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[–] deadcream@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Comments shouldn't have "upvotes" or ranking at all.

[–] tjhart85@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Reddit used to say 'the real life pro tip is always in the comments' or something to that effect.

Why shouldn't a comment that contributed, was genuinely useful or corrected information given by the post be able to naturally rise to the top?

I understand that we don't want "This is the way!" to become the highest top rated comment, but, in most threads useful top level comments get highlighted and off-top/factually incorrect/morally repugnant ones get punted to the bottom and ones that came late to the conversation are just floating in the middle (as compared to being at the end where chances of them ever being seen are even lower).

[–] Saganastic@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There are many forums that already have a flat design like that. The appeal of reddit or reddit-like forums is that useful information bubbles its way up to the top. This allows users to find the highest quality posts with the minimum amount of effort.

It also let's users show their appreciation for a post by upvoting it, or label a post as spam/garbage by down voting it.