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I think that Reddit is making this a lot worse, at least for the people using it. Pretty much everyone there is constantly trying to make jokes in order to get
by lolidaisuki 11y ago
I think that Reddit is making this a lot worse, at least for the people using it. Pretty much everyone there is constantly trying to make jokes in order to get a few upvotes and as a result even the most serious subreddits have people who feel the need to crack jokes. It is really fucking annoying.
- MasterScrat 11y agoThis is why they introduced the [serious] tag, which literally prohibits jokes in the thread. This was a very welcome feature.
- harryf 11y agoThey could also add a [srsly!?!] tag for when all comments must express outrage
- MasterScrat 11y agoActually it would make more sense to have tags and filters, so you could prioritize the type of comments you want to see. I'm too young to have known it but I think slashdot had a system like that?
- marcosdumay 11y agoIt still has. It's only missing the comments for one to filter nowadays.
- emodendroket 11y agoWelcome to whom? I'd rather have the wisecracks.
- bonobo 11y agoWelcome to the people who want to participate in serious discussions. You still have threads, and whole subreddits for that matter, with jokes. But before this tag, people who wanted a joke-free discussion were unable to do so on Reddit, and had to dig through piles of puns and jokes to get some thoughtful comments. Now we have space for both groups.
- emodendroket 11y agoYeah, but I feel that the combination of jokes and serious discussion is better than either one alone.
- mclovinit 11y agoI totally agree. One of the reasons I like HN: high signal to noise ratio.
- mserdarsanli 11y agoHN is also mostly crap
- hodwik 11y agoWhen you're first getting started in tech I think HN seems much more serious than it is. Once you're a bit more experienced you realize it's a bunch of hipsters talking about simple and insignificant technologies, and completely ignoring everything else as "old". That being said, I think it's highly entertaining.
- lolidaisuki 11y ago> hipsters talking about simple and insignificant technologies Are you telling me that a new CSS framework that will save you two lines in your CSS files is insignificant? Or a new <insert the current language that is hip>-style language in <insert a number between 1 and 100> lines of JS! Surely these are the greatest inventions of our time.
- Khao 11y agoReddit? It has always been like that! People try to crack jokes to get attention, now attention has a little number next to it (the upvotes/downvotes) but it's the same thing that's always happened ever. Think back in high school there was always a few kids who would ALWAYS crack jokes to be the center of attention, it isn't any different now that we have websites that kind of "promote" this content more than the rest.
- lolidaisuki 11y agoSure it happens elsewhere as well. But Reddit is really amplifying it.
- emodendroket 11y agoDid you even read the article? Unless you think Reddit is causing severe brain damage, the phenomenon it's discussing is completely unrelated to this (and if it is causing the brain damage described it's hard to understand why anyone would upvote the jokes, since the other part of it is ruining your ability to laugh at other people's jokes).
- lolidaisuki 11y ago>Unless you think Reddit is causing severe brain damage It probably does.
- emodendroket 11y agoProbably not the very specific kind discussed in the article.