Comment on Collectively, Lemmy has a substantive comment issue

Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think lemmy only has two types of posts, these with less than 10 comments and ones hexbear folks posted in.

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  • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Honestly I’d rather have the 10 comment threads than the ones with the Hexbear crowd in them. Those threads are always a train wreck of shit takes, sealioning, and bad faith arguments.

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    • flipthetube@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve never heard the term sealioning. Is it really a thing?

      I don’t think it is, but if you have any evidence to prove it, I’m listening.

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  • cwagner@lemmy.cwagner.me ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • ruckblack@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Our admin has been acting incredibly sketchy regarding them, not a fan.

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      • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Given that this entire post and thread of comments is a discussion about the lack of quality comments in the fediverse, and the hexbear server has made more total comments than all of the other servers combined, surely you can follow my reasoning in allowing them to federate with us.

        I obviously misjudged the extent of their misanthropy, but I don’t see what other course we could have taken. You yourself made a comment about not being in favor of defederation at the time, only to change your mind a day later.

        How would you have handled that situation?

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• cosmic_slate@dmv.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I agree most people shouldn’t post expert analysis and would be unreasonable to expect as such. I wanted to avoid aiming this thread at specific people but there are a limited number of accounts with a very, very high comment count that is entirely derived from what I’d consider lower effort contributions.

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  • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Without examples its hard to know what your post is about

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  • PeleSpirit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think some of them are bots tbh, they sure seem like bots. It’s inevitable that we’re going to see bot action but I think it’s by some people who just want lemmy to seem more active, but that’s just a theory.

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• teddy-bonkerz@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Holy shit, not me.

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  • Corgana@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Haha right? Same. Thankfully threads like this are pointless because the nice thing about decentralization is that anyone can do it their own way and it doesn’t matter what others think.

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