r/Piracy on Reddit is more of a meme subreddit. I’ve never seen any actual discussion or valuable information as I do on this community. Why is that?

  • kwot@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Think a large part of it is context driven and what kind of community it is. I know in more serious threads, more helpful information was usually upvoted. But I get you, Reddit (the default subreddits especially) got too big for its own good and became the muddied groupthink mess it is today, and I definitely agree that those kinds of comments add nothing to a discussion. I suppose one kind of solution here would be to implement the boosting system like they have at kbin and have that as some “helpful/insightful” button, but I don’t think people in general would agree to one standard just like that. They’re more likely going to keep doing what they’re used to, and that’s the voting system. Not sure how to really tackle the problem myself 😅

    • raesin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      Def agree a boost button would make more sense and makes the intended purpose clear. At the end of the day I really only care that useful and insightful comments float up to the top.