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Reddit, as a text forum, has a common problem with Poe's law: dry satire is sustained for too long and starts to be taken seriously. Subs that start as sarcast
by srtjstjsj 11y ago
Reddit, as a text forum, has a common problem with Poe's law: dry satire is sustained for too long and starts to be taken seriously.
Subs that start as sarcastic mockery become havens (and recruiting posts) for true believers.
- lsc 11y agoSee... I dunno. I don't think that's the problem, though, at least, that's not my problem with reddit. My counterexample is Kuro5hin, back when it was still a thing. In the good old days; sure, you could never really be sure who was trolling and who wasn't, but it was usually well-written, erudite trolling. It wasn't particularly repetitive, and it was entertaining. In my opinion, the problem is not trolling, it's people expressing opinions in repetitive, uncreative and not very entertaining ways. Fundamentally, I believe that the problem is bad writing.