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The state of certain subreddits was abysmal. Damnthatsinteresting, mildlyinteresting and all the others were just the same thing reposted and crossposted.

Long pun chains

So. Much. This.

Long looping chains where the same 3 comments are repeated.

So called IT experts who only know solutions by rote. If the question is out of their scope they almost always respond with “why do you want to do that? You really want to do this instead” and then promptly give you basic instructions that don’t actually answer the question.

I'm just tired of the same old jokes. "Uh oh, his shoes fell off, he must be dead."

Reposts of questions from a few days ago like this one

AskReddit topics:

"Who is a very popular and esteemed actor but actually is pretty bad at acting?"

"What's a cheap thing that is actually expensive?"

A tolerance for the propagation of disinformation.

Room for disagreements is necessary, but so is stopping people who never cared about agreeing in the first place. Giving the dishonest this freedom has only silenced the honest by burdening them with layers of crap to cut through before their speech is heard.

Rage bait, Karen videos, violence

Comments that require a, "well, back on Reddit..." explanation. Could include comments about that guy's dead wife. That one kid's broken arms, etc.

Well I saw there's already a "The Donald" type group so that's just fuckin' lovely.

Power mods like that awkward turtle loser

Powermods who collects the title more than doing the actual moderating.

Shadowbanning.

I think mega threads are really useful for when you're looking for credible sources.

There's nothing wrong with talking about reddit right now, it's the biggest ongoing news to all of us right now. It will never really go away in your mind, in time you'll just be indifferent towards it.

The most important thing is again, to remember what reddit did to turn into what it is, and not repeat the mistake here.

Low IQ moderators who do a billion dollar corporation's work for free just because they want the smallest modicum of power.

“This.”

"On mobile, apologies for bad formatting."

As if posting from a mobile device somehow prevents you from using paragraphs and punctuation? Give me a break. You either can't be bothered, which means you're not worth interacting with; or you had to repeat at least a high school English class or two growing up. Either way you need to stop blaming your fucking phone.

People replying "this"... motherfucker that's what the upvote button is for.

"Third reply downvotes" and other types of bullying done for absolutely no reason. Also, people misleading others to disgusting communities just to troll them, for example (and I am paraphrasing the names of the communities): "misspell the community's name to c/vercute instead of c/verycute and you accidentally get a sub full of gore" or "check out c/audioing, it's definitely not people doing a very disgusting thing to one of their body parts". I do, however, like the fact they're bringing the whole subreddit swap meme - for example: on Reddit we have had r/trees and r/marijuana_enthusiasts and I've seen that implemented into Lemmy instances already. I wouldn't get rid of that, I think there are some traditions that are neat and don't harm anybody.

spez

Help me name my pet, because I have no creatively or originality and am a karma whore.

Just less outrage, more harmony.

Circlejerk communities. They almost always end up being worse than the actual places they make fun of.

constant cyclejerk to farm upvotes. also the fact that on reddit if you dont commonet within like 1hr of post creation you have basically no chance of getting top voted / talking on that thread

I only want to see the number of upvotes and downvotes like in the olden time.

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Entire post that are just a screencap from a tv show with an unedited quote as the title. Those used to flood any show specific sub to the point of annoyance. They add nothing to the conversation.