i can’t stand megathreads – no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!

  • Countess425@lemmy.world
    9·
    3 years ago

    When people turn a popular post into an Oscars Acceptance Speech

    ETA: wow thanks for the upvotes!

    ETA2: omg my first gold award?? I couldn’t have made it without my mom and Jesus through whom all things are possible

    • Provoked Gamer@lemmy.ca
      3·
      3 years ago

      This.

      ETA: thanks for one upvote!😃

      ETA2: thanks for two upvotes!😀😀

      ETA3: woah?! 3?!?!?! thanks for three upvotes!😁😁😁

      ETA4: this is more upvotes than I have money in my bank account! thanks for four upvotes!💵💵💵

      ETA5: INASANE!!! thanks for five upvotes!😍😍😍

      ETA6: I’ve never had more than SIX!!! thanks for six upvotes! 😱😱😱😱😱

      ETA7: thanks for seven upvotes! I want to thank my mom, my brother, Jesus, Scott, Bill Gates, and my cat!!!🤗🤗

      ETA8: What? Why y’all downvoting me now? Bring it back to seven!😤😤😤

      ETA9: Unbelievable. -400 upvotes now. I lost my house, my car, and my job because of this! 😔😔😣😖😖😖😭😭

      /s

  • mamaMiata@lemmy.world
    8·
    3 years ago

    This may be an unpopular option since I’ve already seen it across lemmy, but the ____porn communities. I’d like to browse pictures of nice landscapes or exotic cars without worry about someone around me noticing “PORN” on my screen.

    At this point it seems very old internet, something that made sense when those communities were established, but now is unnecessary gratuitous and not socially acceptable.

  • meisme@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 years ago

    “Sir, you have just won the internet” “Thanks for the gold kind stranger” “I too choose this guy’s [placeholder]” And the other corny overused reddit lines

  • throbbing_banjo@lemmy.world
    2·
    3 years ago

    Karma-whoring. It’s already started with the stupid “upote my can of beans” posts… Dude nobody cares about your internet points, either activity participate or fuck off to Instagram.

    • Colonel Sanders@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 years ago

      You forgot to add the "Edit: " part because they always have to come back and edit every 2 minutes.

      Edit: “Whoa my first gold! Thanks!”

      Edit2: “Wow this is silly, thanks everyone!”

      Edit3: “While you’re here, let me tell you my life story.”

      EditAdNauseum: High pitched ear ringing

      • Dave@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        3 years ago

        Updoot sounds cute, but when redditors announce their upvotes that does get annoying.

    • Chriszz@lemmy.world
      0·
      3 years ago

      A lot of people would just upvote the first bozo to reply with a confident answer and never bother to check for the full story. Scrolling 3 comments down you’d find someone who actually knows their stuff. I learned to at least read most of the comments before committing any Reddit info to memory as fact.

  • UnfortunateDoorHinge@aussie.zone
    1·
    3 years ago

    /r/MadeMeSmile portrayed toxic positivity which felt out of touch with reality.

    “I made my bed today. First time in 14 years 🙂”

    • 45 thousand likes and 2 thousand comments.
  • Zozano@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 years ago

    Please don’t let /c/asklemmy become like /r/askreddit, which had half of the front-page posts being the same sex related questions every month.

    “Women of reddit, what non sexual thing that guys so makes you horny?”

    “What is the sexiest thing you regret doing?”

    “How many cocks have you sucked while your cat judges you while waiting for you to feed it?”

    It was bullshit.

  • Bonk@lemmy.world
    01·
    3 years ago

    I actually liked megathreads, they usually meant big news and I didn’t have to read 20 posts about the same thing.

    But what I disliked about reddit was when trolls from some subreddits would spam CP to get other subreddits closed

    • Bak@lemmy.world
      0·
      3 years ago

      Megathreads for news / events I think are great - for me the annoying part were some of the ongoing megathreads; for example some game subs will drown out basically all actual conversation about gameplay because there a “daily questions thread”. I know they might’ve had an issue with repetitive questions, but there’s gotta be a middle point

      • Bonk@lemmy.world
        01·
        3 years ago

        Oh yeah those condensed threads for daily discussions and what not were awful and killed subs lol