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

  • Countess425@lemmy.world
    17·
    2 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
      6·
      2 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

    • SGforce@lemmy.ca
      1·
      2 years ago

      I always thought that was a sign it was astroturfed. Like my post? Give Reddit money!

    • Psythik@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      I also hate “happy cake day”, and “this”. Especially “this”. It’s a worthless comment that adds nothing more to the discussion than a simple upvote.

    • Bendersmember@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      Trick to avoiding that is to never get gold. Took me 10 years to never get gold once. I’m good at what I don’t do.

  • mamaMiata@lemmy.world
    152·
    2 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.

  • Marvin42@feddit.nl
    12·
    2 years ago

    I absolutely hate the love for revenge violence. Stuff like celebration people running over protestors in their cars because they were forced to stop on the road. Or bleeding out after someone got shot when they robbed a store.

    This includes that fact that you can basically guarantee every thread contains at least one comment claiming “play stupid games, win stupid prizes”

    • FinnFooted@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      I haaate “equal rights means equal lefts.”

      These dudes fantasize about a woman picking a fight with them so they can beat the shit out of one and have it be socially acceptable.

      • starlinguk@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        I saw one of those just before I left Reddit. A woman slapped a guy with her flat hand (they didn’t show you why) and he knocked her unconscious. And Reddit was celebrating the guy 🤮.

    • Chailles@lemmy.world
      01·
      2 years ago

      While that would be ideal and it makes me feel a bit gross when I catch myself thinking the same things sometimes, it’s inevitable. Retribution is one of the easiest ways to exact a punishment, violent or not.

  • UnfortunateDoorHinge@aussie.zone
    8·
    2 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.
    • boonhet@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 years ago

      Honestly, with ADHD, that can be pretty normal. One day you forget to make your bed and suddenly boom, it’s been 14 years since the last time you did it. Good habits die so easily because they give no pleasant hormones and bad habits come so easily because they give you reward hormones.

      I honestly make my bed a couple of times a year. Also there’s a theory that not making your bed is actually healthier because it doesn’t create a warm, moist environment under the blanket for shit to grow in, so I use that as an excuse. But really, I just forget it all the time and don’t care too much.

    • PeddlingAmbiguity@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      Yes I absolutely hated that sub, either like your example or some awful news with a very slightly hopeful element.

      “puppy whose legs were destroyed by a landmine learns to love again”

    • CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one
      0·
      2 years ago

      “This 8-yr-old sold his Pokemon cards to buy his mom a prosthetic leg after she lost hers to cancer. What an angel!”

      • cooopsspace@infosec.pub
        1·
        2 years ago

        (Eight year old provides free healthcare in a first world nation that doesn’t have universal healthcare for some reason.)

  • May@kbin.social
    8·
    2 years ago

    When someone would ask a good question that you also wanna know the answer to, but then all the “answers” were just jokes bc everyone wanna get upvotes. I dont really mind jokes but those times it was a bit sad, then sometimes no one would answer for real bc i guess they see 10 replies and assume surely one of them is real already.

    Also repost bots.

    And apple vs samsung feuds.

    And sometimes looked like whenever some people try to organize action or protests, comments just spamming that “protests do nothing” or “voting does nothing,” or “what is this gonna do,” not suggesting any other solution either, almost like trying to encourage apathy? Or discourage action. Sometimes i wondered if those were bots.

    Also the r/wooosh when someone didn’t understand a joke. .-.

    • AdminWorker@lemmy.ca
      1·
      2 years ago

      I want users to be able to flag comments as “jokes” or “serious” on lemmy, so it is easy to sort by relevant comment thread. Especially inside jokes.

    • WishbackJumpsta@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      I remember the days when on reddit, the most insightful and genuine answers would get upvoted, because an upvote was related to the quality of the post, and not the “Meme”.

      reddit died when that all changed

    • pizza_rolls@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      This is my #1 also. So many people “just asking questions”

      I also hate the circlejerk of people going “I cannot possibly comprehend being gay/trans/disabled/whatever but I let them do what they want!” They’re not aliens, you can listen to them explain what they are going through and have empathy. It’s not very complicated.

      • Magikjak@lemmy.world
        0·
        2 years ago

        I think it’s a good attitude to serve as a stepping stone away from bigotry, it appeals to the bigots by offering some common ground while giving them a path to becoming less outwardly bigoted. Social progress takes time, especially with attitudes engrained as much as homophobia used to be.

        • zalack@kbin.social
          0·
          2 years ago

          Agreed, I grew up in a very conservative area and was pretty homophobic when I started college.

          “They can do whatever they want, just don’t ask me to like it” was an important stepping stone towards “oh shit, love is love” and finally actually listening to the experience of gay people.

          • BananaTrifleViolin@kbin.social
            0·
            2 years ago

            Ultimately “live and let live” is all we can ask of anyone. If that is their attitude then they aren’t a bigot. People are expecting too much of other people now - not embracing someone does not make someone a bigot.

            Your starting position to me is honestly enough but unfortunately many people are way away from that. As a gay guy, I’d be happy with people just saying “do whatever you want want, just don’t ask me to like it”. The problem is too many people claim that with words but then actually act differently.

            • Today@lemm.ee
              0·
              1 year ago

              I don’t want to see your junk and I don’t care who you’re sleeping with. I don’t understand why that’s a hard position for people to take.

              • Niello@kbin.social
                0·
                1 year ago

                Don’t understand why you stereotyped people and basically insulted them and then wondered why people are offended? Yea? No one wants to see your fucking junk either. No, just because you’re not gay doesn’t make you any more or less likely to do what you are accusing them of.

  • Zozano@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 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.

    • asterzura@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      I don’t know why the mods of r/AskReddit still accepts these kind of posts when it would be more appropriate to do an NSFW r/AskReddit (if it doesn’t already exist).

      • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
        0·
        2 years ago

        “Oh wow thank you for giving a giant corporation your money because of something I said!”

  • throbbing_banjo@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 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.