Comment on Collectively, Lemmy has a substantive comment issue

o0barkbarkbark0o@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• abracaDavid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Asking questions is a great way to start if you don’t know the subject at hand but you find it interesting.

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• cosmic_slate@dmv.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Good suggestions. On the one hand you’re right, but on the other hand I don’t want to totally discourage people from posting a silly/low effort comment if that’s all they have to say.

    Although it’s true that Lemmy comments are not always substantive, there is an associated problem whereby a lot of posts barely get any comments or discussion at all. So I think we also need to recognize that even a low effort joke can help stimulate further discussion and maybe result in a more substantive comment in the form of a reply.

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• Sigmatank@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve been trying specifically to comment on posts in area where I want more content with something related to the post. There hasn’t necessarily been more NBA discussions, but I usually get a response from the poster, which is how you start the snowballs rolling I think

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• theodewere@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  jaded from Reddit and fear I’ll have people jumping down my throat

  that's not easy to get over, but trust yourself

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• PeleSpirit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not care about the downvotes or the trolls. There are certainly trolls here, but that’s a them problem, not a you problem. You’re awesome, we all know it.

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  • OpenStars@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Except it can be constant, following you everywhere you go, and affecting you even when you block the person, e.g. they weaponize the "report" function in subs, and some mods simply can't keep up so end up removing your comments almost automatically.

    And that is still fairly low level for Reddit, not even beginning to get deeper e.g. doxing. Sadly, bullying works, and all the more so in a place without effective moderation.:-(

    Not that I've seen any of that here - it really does seem related to the "culture" of a place, like Discord or Slack or Reddit or... here, where others may call out a bully, or just ignore them entirely but instead provide positive feedback to replace it and reinforce community standards of decency.

    As you just did, kudos for being awesome yourself!:-D

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• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  fear I’ll have people jumping down my throat like happens so often on there

  This is definitely a thing on Lemmy also.

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