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I loved Reddit for what it is, but nothing made me back out of a post faster than seeing the top 3 parent threads as a regurgitation of the same inside jokes, pun-chains, and so on.

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[โ€“] DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow, that's a clever little algorithm. It feels like it could work better.

Reddit's big problem (among many) was you had to get in early on a thread to contribute. Otherwise you could be so far at the bottom you might as well have sent your reply to the bit bucket.

[โ€“] dystop@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

lemmy's algo seems in theory to work better, but we'll only know when the userbase here gets large enough.

On reddit, once a thread got past 300+ comments, the only way to get any views on your comment was to post it as a nested comment in a top-level comment.

[โ€“] DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

lol, I realized the same thing and gamed that broken system more than once.

[โ€“] dystop@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

most power users realised that, i think. and that's what led to the pun chains.