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A few days ago, somebody had a made some silly comment like this: "OMG She is t3h winrar of t3h intarnets!". Their point was that somebody had done something
by blhack 17y ago
A few days ago, somebody had a made some silly comment like this:
"OMG She is t3h winrar of t3h intarnets!". Their point was that somebody had done something very noteworthy. It added nothing to the conversation and was exactly the type of thing I think we're talking about here.
I did what I think this thread is asking me not to and responded with something like this:
"Just so you know, you're being downmodded for using the word 'internets', people around here don't like that" (or something to that effect).
My question is if this was the "wrong" thing to do? I was wrong, and the user I was responding to had been here for a long time, but I felt like it might have been helpful to inform new people that the sorts of things that are welcomed and encouraged on reddit, are not here.
Is this thread encouraging us NOT to do stuff like that?
- tptacek 17y agoYes. That's what this thread is encouraging you not to do. That goes triple for comments in the middle of bona fide comment threads, because the [troll, rebuke] comment pair is going to be stuck right in the middle of the comments page, not at the bottom.
- blhack 17y agoOkay, thank you.
- mbreese 17y agoWould it be helpful then to have a special type of comment that can't be voted up (zero points always)? So, for the troll rebuke, have the rebuke marked so that people couldn't vote it up. This way it would appear in the users's comment's page, but would be down-modded to the bottom of the page, with the trollish comment? Maybe just include a "no points" button or checkbox on the comment edit screen?
- josefresco 17y agoI replied to your reply clarifying why the one-liner comment was downmodded. In further hopes that my comment would dissuade others considering a one-liner. Does that make my action 2x worse? confused
- mquander 17y agoI think the philosophy is that a comment such as the above is (or should be) sufficiently inappropriate that anyone posting it here is either consciously trolling or oblivious to his environment. If he needs to be explicitly instructed not to post that, he will also be inclined to post a thousand other crappy comments, each of which are, as Tolstoy might or might not have said, crappy in their own way. The best clarification possible is to create a sea of high-quality comments around his, so that he can contrast them with his, and learn.