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Example of "Reddit style comments" would be low effort jokes. Some subreddits are addressing this by using a convention where you can mark submissions with a "[
by ConfucianNardin 9y ago
Example of "Reddit style comments" would be low effort jokes. Some subreddits are addressing this by using a convention where you can mark submissions with a "[serious]" tag, forbidding such replies (if there are any, they will usually be removed by the subreddit's moderators).
On HN, quite a few of them seem to get heavily downvoted (sometimes enough to mark them as dead, meaning you won't see them unless you explicitly opt in to see them).
- dredmorbius 9y agoDifferent subs vary. But the effect, overall, is discouraging. Groupthink is another significant problem, particularly on topics which tend to gravitate toward ideology. Many economics subs operate this way.