I’ve said it another thread but moderators need to be patient with all of the new people. I made a post trying to get some questions answered and was shit on by a mod for not knowing the rules. I couldn’t even find the sidebar at that point. If that is the attitude new users are met with when making mistakes then new contributions will be limited.
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I really feel like "rules" for different magazines should be lax at first and just take out the obvious scum or completely irrelevant posts. Ease everyone in. There isn't even an actual community in most magazines yet because there's so few people. Let the people come first, then figure out the ins and outs of them.
Absolutely.
The reason many of the rules exist on reddit is to simplify the management of a glut of users in a single community. When it's small like this, you can afford to be informal until it starts becoming a problem.
I would love to have the problem of a bunch of newbies coming here and flooding communities with questions about rules and stuff. After that happens for a while and starts to get annoying, then you start enforcing the rules a bit more.
Yeah. Good point. There will be some growing pains and mistakes in posting with all the newbies, like me. I think it will be a slower growth than some Redditors will want, but I was there for over 10 years so I don't mind a little wait. I think it won't be that long and I'm already enjoying discovering different communities.
I don't think quality filters are needed yet as any post is a bit of a miracle
Reddit lurker commenting. Still not sure about using kbin or a smaller lemmy instance for the long term but for now I’m here!
Reddit lurker checking in. I have a total of 2 posts and 15 comments in 13 years of using reddit. Not sure about using kbin or one of the smaller lemmy instances, but I'm here for now.
Welcome. It’s good to know that your comments won’t get deeply buried in a thread that was posted 15 min ago. It’s still a small community so there’s a great chance of good interaction (at least in my experience using it for a few days now).
Exactly. Maybe I'm sounding awfully optimistic, but I actually enjoy the slow pace here. Posts can be 1 week old and there are still comments popping up after a while. It also makes interactions more meaningful in a way.
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I made a post, I'm doing my part!
I wish I could do the same...
oh wait...!
Hmm, 63 upvotes and two comments… there is certain level of irony here.
I'd like to point out that the upvote/downvote buttons here on kbin don't behave like you are used to on reddit they are a little different.
- Up arrow = Upvote on Reddit and Favourite on Kbin - This is very different to reddit
- Down Arrow = Downvote on Reddit and Reduce on Kbin
- Boost (at bottom) = On kbin this is the equivalent to a reddit upvote.
It kinda confused me when I looked at my profile the other day and my reputation was -2
I'd only made one single post and it had 17 "upvotes" and 2 "downvotes" so the -2 confused me a bit. That's when I realised the uparrow was not an upvote and didn't contribute to reputation. I suspect many others don't understand this either based on the interractions with my other post.
Edit: To be clear while "fake internet points" are not overly important to me. "Reputation" or similar do give me an indication if I am contributing to a community in a positive and productive manner.
Seeing -2 made me think "Who have I pissed off?" Till I realised that "Favourites" don't contribute to reputation.
I agree, also join me on @Bestof.
That link is malformed - https://kbin.social/m/bestof exists, but when you click that it converts it to https://kbin.social/u/@Bestof@kbin.social that does not. I don't know how to make it not do that.
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The problem is, I never really have anything to say that's worth contributing 😢
Haha, that's kind of the point of it. You would suddenly realised you are not alone in how you think or feel
That is usually what happens to me. (<-- This is a pretty useless comment as well xD)
If people only commented when they have something of value to contribute sites like reddit would be dead
You can still upvote though.
Ahem.. hint hint
I upvoted and boosted you, just because you asked 😉 Boost that reputation!
Lol yeah I heard my rep on kbin is kinda sh.it. I can't see that on the Lemmy side.
Can you minus someone's reputation without downvoting them? Because I feel like I've had like 5 comments that were downvoted, if that.
I ran into some unsavory people when I was first exploring the fediverse and I think they group downrepped(?) me. Just for being smart.
Imma boost some of your comments, and we can see if that changes anything.
Edit: So yeah, boosting counts for your rep. At this point I feel like I'm just playing with your account though. If you want me to remove all the boosts I just did, just say the word. Otherwise I'll leave them.
So I got nosey, and checked out your profile. I'm really confused by your reputation of -31. What I heard was upvotes don't count for rep, but downvotes and boosts do. Do you know, did you get some comments mass reported or something? Maybe reports count against? Maybe it's buggy with non kbin accounts? I'd suggest hitting boost on your own posts, that might help. I know the first day I was active, my rep went up, with me having like 2 upvotes, but also boosting my own posts. It seems weird that you boosting your own stuff would have a positive effect, but I think it might. I included a screen shot of your rep page, so you can make of it what you will... I'm mostly guessing. FYI comments was the only category that had any affect on your rep, all other categories were empty.
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14:1 upvote to comment ratio on this post as of this comment...um....
That's fairly normal, isn't it?
Trying. But there is so much fluff and garbage.
Haven't posted on Reddit since the blackout, and don't intend to. Only reason I'm still lurking is because I'm loosely keeping up on SubredditDrama, and manually deleting my comments and posts.
Developments in lemmy/kbin have been exciting and I've been focusing my time here instead of Reddit. Cake Day is the 26th. I plan on wrapping up my account then. Seems fitting after 11 years.
Am on it ! Been upvoting from the moment I landed here. So glad to witness and contribute to a watershed moment in the history of reddit and the fediverse!
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I'm doing this as well. It helps a lot that the user base is smaller (in a good way) here, which means posting something relevant/valuable has a better chance of being noticed, which in turn makes me want to post more.
Try posting a well thought-out comment in a huge thread on Reddit a couple hours after it was posted... you'll get lost under all the jokes and puns.
It took me a few days to realize that I could comment on threads without getting bombarded by every troll on the internet. The reddit conditioning is hard to break.
Things are much more polite over here, for now, and that's nice.
That kinda comes with smaller communities, I think.
I'm sure toxic people will figure out lemmy eventually too, but for now it's been nice.
The only subreddit I still care about has been private from the start and has between 300-400 people in it who have been randomly invited over time.
Post or comment every week and get kicked.
On the whole, lemmy reminds me of that place a bit since the communities are smaller and idk how to put this but that feels. .. more human?
You are right, I will try.
(First comment ever ;)
Habitual lurker checking in. On kbin and loving the difference in vibe and waiting patiently for the migration to boost the communities I used to frequent.
I'm trying to boost and upvote as I scroll. I've feel like I've commented more here than I have in the last several years on reddit.
Tried to make a beer- themed magazine but I have no clue what I'm doing.
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Get out of here with those good ideas
Posting as I was once a Reddit lurker who originally made my Reddit account while waiting for my baby to be born… occasionally I wanted to interact with the pregnancy community, breastfeeding community and house plant community. My account was permanently banned/suspended for absolutely no reason at all. It happened when my husband got banned for a comment he made (I would have to ask him the details) but my account was permanently banned a few days after his was. Initially I thought it would be an easy fix! Clearly it was just a simple mix-up! My account was very clearly not my husband’s account. We had much different use patterns etc. plus my username has the word “mama” in it. However, I quickly found that it was not going to be so simple. They basically ignored me. I knew they were reading the messages, but I just kept getting automated responses. At first I thought it would just be the one account that was suspended, since I figured it was tied to my husbands account. So I actually refrained from making a new account as I was waiting for Reddit to tell me the best course of action. It was radio silence on their end. Finally I made a new account and within days it was banned. I knew It was personal when I told them that they hadn’t yet banned my oldest Reddit account made in 2011, which was completely not tied to my husbands account at all… was banned when I told them I had been able to log into that account without issue and that it hadn’t been banned. I never gave them the user name and within a day my account was also permanently banned. They were reading my messages and it felt like they were mocking me. They never could give me a reason for being banned. So, here I am. It was incredibly frustrating and felt embarrassing to be that desperate! At one point I told them I would never stop emailing them until they answered me! Of course I eventually gave up. It feels like they banned be because they didn’t like my husband or me? Who knows. The funny thing is, I had paid for many months for Reddit gold, and could not get legitimate customer service as a consumer- how are they getting away with this??
I have been using KBIN since yesterday and Lemmy since the beginning of June. I was completely convinced that the Up Arrow was an Upvote until i saw this post. What kind of bonkers design decision was this? I know that Kbin wants to differentiate itself from Reddit, but this is really counterintuitive.
It would be nice if the comment box wasn't at the bottom of the page.
These move the comment box to the top.
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/468612-kbin-enhancement-script
https://userstyles.world/style/10288/kbin-it
First comment on here! Trying to get the hang of things. So, in theory we can use accounts from Lemmy, Kbin and Mastodon interchangably, right? What's your optimal way of browsing the Fediverse on Android?
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