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According to my experience rather on Lobsters participants seem to be mostly concerned with nagging. Rarely got a useful or positive comment for my posts there.
by Rochus 3y ago
According to my experience rather on Lobsters participants seem to be mostly concerned with nagging. Rarely got a useful or positive comment for my posts there. There is a small circle of users who have a particularly good relationship with the admin and flag everything they don't like. I had much better discussions and more useful feedback on some subreddits.
I agree that the downvoting possibility encourages misuse. There is no downvoting on Lobsters, but people instead flag whatever they don't like, even if there is objectively no violation of the site rules. Actually I would prefer a site where you can only upvote or flag, not downvote, but the admin in that case should charge people who misuse flagging.
- stephenr 3y agoFlagged as what though? Without seeing actual examples of posted articles that were flagged it's honestly impossible to make any judgement. Edit: I should point out that this isn't a hypothetical question either. As the moderation log is open, we can see exactly why a user was banned or post was removed etc.
- Rochus 3y agoUnfortunately many examples; usually it starts with a "-1 spam", e.g. for this post: https://lobste.rs/s/ebztmj/now_we_know_which_cs_publication_used_term https://lobste.rs/s/ebztmj/now_we_know_which_cs_publication_... And if you then complain that the post doesn't violate house rules, you get some obviously wrong claims from someone of the inner circle why it does; if you then contradict to these claims or present facts, you usually get flagged for trolling, and eventually your comments are removed by the admin. I have still an account but don't spend more time there.
- stephenr 3y ago> you get some obviously wrong claims I can't possibly imagine why you ever had a problem Edit: sorry I forgot to add the /s. I really thought it would be obvious this time.
- Rochus 3y agoWell, I was (unfortunately) not surprised because it already happened with some posts before. There are some really destructive people there.
- bb010g 3y agoAs a Lobsters user, I think you could have avoided those spam flags with a less click-baity title and opening line of the body. “MIT CSG Memo 137 was the first CS publication to use the term "object-oriented"” would have been a better title, since you posted after the result was discovered. Also, Hillel Wayne already politely explained this to you! https://lobste.rs/s/ebztmj/now_we_know_which_cs_publication_used_term#c_ac0vel https://lobste.rs/s/ebztmj/now_we_know_which_cs_publication_...
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- Rochus 3y agoWhich is obviously nonsense. But frankly, I have no desire to reopen this pointless debate. They shall be happy with their platform, just without me.
- metabagel 3y agoI don’t use lobsters, but I feel like it’s courteous to summarize and then link, which you did not do.