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Hopefully we go back to forums, where the format is more conducive to conversation rather than snarky one-liners and memes. This whole nested comment format be
by radcon 7y ago
Hopefully we go back to forums, where the format is more conducive to conversation rather than snarky one-liners and memes.
This whole nested comment format becomes completely unreadable once you have more than two people involved in a comment thread, and the fact that submissions can't survive more than 36 hours guarantees that no deeper conversations would ever happen even if the comment format could support them.
On forums, there are discussion threads that last for years and the format makes them much easier to read from start to finish.
- asdff 7y agoThere's a happy size for subreddits, ballpark less than 200k subs. Otherwise, like you said, its overwhelming. Any less than 30k subs and the subreddit is pretty desolate though, which might be good for some topics.
- mrmuagi 7y agoWhat forums do you peruse? The ones I run through are generally okay, but mechanisms of voting, liking, and rewarding post count of users, seem to increase low effort posting.