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I'm guilty of this one myself, but imo reddit-style usernames.
For a good at least I don't see as much 'this' posting chains and similar. Nothing like clicking into a serious convo in order to troubleshoot something just to find a 'this' chain 20 posts long.
I was thinking of mentioning those redundant repeating of a comment instead of just upvoting the existing one, but you've just brought up a more extreme version.
'This' originated on imageboards (or if not, some other sites that don't have voting). A site with voting like reddit makes those one-word affirmation posts a complete waste of space, or a low-effort dog-piling joke at best. "I agree", cool story.
Having upvotes or some kind of 'karma/points' system changes the feel of a board dramatically.
I remember boards back in the late 90s without any sort of points system you'd be known for writing style, posting mass, or having a (lack) of expertise in an area rather than your points. It made a sense of community at the cost of making communities have a barrier to entry that made them a bit harder to grow, since it took time for you to become familiar to regulars and such.
Alao, I think awards and reddit coins (and now reddit NFTs, yeah...) are the "this forum going to shit" express. It's like they want to turn their platform more and more infantile and full of people trying to game the awards system instead of actually participating in good faith.
I find this is a general problem with commercial sites. The goal is to keep users engaged and to show growth as opposed to create a healthy environment for discussion. There are lots of studies showing that encouraging negative behaviors actually drives engagement.
True, and I would say that bumping with shitposts is abuse of that feature.
I actually haven't see many "bump" comments yet. Hopefully it doesn't become a thing here, because otherwise bumping threads because someone made a new (real) comment is pretty useful IMO. I believe the current sorter stops bumping threads with new comments after a while to keep the same thread from being on the front page for months (if a thread needs to be, it should probably get pinned and not rely on new activity).
By troubleshooting did you mean stuff like programming or hobby communities where people post their issue and people try to help them? Maybe it's just the communities I use, but I found that those are the last tolerable places on Reddit specifically because the rules on professionalism and high effort posts are quite strict, so a "this" chain will most likely get removed.
Honestly, those communities are the last ones keeping me on Reddit. Once Lemmy gets big enough that I can post help threads and actually get answers, I'm gone from Reddit for good.
Super late response, iirc I was trying to get a lga 775 back up and running with whatever I found lying around, the posts were ancient, of the sort you mutter to yourself 'usersoandso' how did you fix it', and they left without sharing their enlightenment with the rest of the internet.
Same here, especially since I'm sharing Reddit with at least 3 other people and we all have to be wary of getting banned.
I don't mind such chains as long as it's easy to minimise them and skip the entire chain. It's one click to avoid annoyance for me and seemingly endless fun for the "This'ers".