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In line with this, I sometimes feel that the best way to fix a problem is to make it worse, to the point where it's intolerable. Kind of like a pot-hole in the
by TwoNineFive 6y ago
In line with this, I sometimes feel that the best way to fix a problem is to make it worse, to the point where it's intolerable.
Kind of like a pot-hole in the street out in front of your house. If it's a small pot-hole it might go unnoticed and unfixed, but if you go take a pick-axe to it to the point where cars start bottoming out, it's more likely to get fixed.
Almost like the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
I recently witnessed someone take this strategy to task on Reddit where the Ubiquiti subreddit had become inundated with low-quality picture posts.
https://reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/comments/fa1wdw/please_post_more_pictures_of_boxes_the_only_way/ https://reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/comments/fa1wdw/please_post_mo...
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- saagarjha 6y agoEver seen /r/ProgrammerHumor? It used to be great, until it started being featured on /r/all, and the low quality “bad UI” and “I can’t find my semicolon” posts started flowing in and being upvoted. Now it’s awful. There was one great post yesterday and it was glorious (https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/g4cr9m/my_i3_is_working_hard https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/g4cr9m/my_...) but it’s back to usual now :(
- lstamour 6y agoI dunno, I got a kick out of https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/g50h6m/a_small_but_sweet_victory/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/g50h6m/a_s...
- interestica 6y agoWow, that Ubiquity thread is glorious. It's a perfect mix of sarcasm and reflection. I think the problem stems from a shift in how users "reddit". The upvote button is now analogous to a "like" button. It doesn't encourage users to take context (eg subreddit) of the post into account. Reddit encourages its popular and hot feeds - a meta assortment that strips posts of some of their context. So, everything is truly reduced to just "good or bad".