I’m Comment-only. I don’t read.
I comment only. I don’t read.
but I read comments
Thank you for getting the joke. I was really worried no one would :-D
Just because of that I’m gonna lurk for a whole week straight and theres not a damn thing you can do to stop me.
chemotherapy?
To everyone saying that someone has already said what they want to say: post anyway. You’d be surprised how significant tiny differences in perspective can be.
Every time I post it’s in the wrong community or against some rule and I get the hammer
I post things I want to see, but I’m apparently alone in that desire
So we will cancer on
To all the “Someone already said it!” Filter by hot. Or even better new. Then you can be the first to say your beige take.
Nah. The real cancer is the quiet plurality of users who just scroll through the post feed and only voting, not even reading comments. The ones who are responsible for the occasional thread that has entirely negative comments but gets upvoted to the stratosphere anyways.
i posted once!
The math checks out.
Nah as long as they Upvote content and don’t complain about content being posted they can stay lurkers.
(If they do complain they can be the change they want to see and post, that’s what I did)
I posted twice, automod got one of them, but the other was gloriously empowering. Can recommend 8/10
I made one post and feel like I’ve earned my retirement.
Ok, I made it on a prior account but I inherited the retirement dammit!
Akshually, we’re called lurkers.
I can only post when I’m feeling strong, because I’m terrified of y’all disapproving. :(
I just bought a drone, hopefully it arrives by this weekend and I’ll start posting some pictures
What annoys me about Reddit-like communities (yes including Lemmy) is that there’s this downvote feature.
The whole idea of these discussion boards is to have… discussions. So it’s annoying when you make a post or reply to someone with a constructive reply or argument, and then people can’t be arsed to actually reply, they just downvote to disagree and move on. It’s like the equivalent of people just going like “lol no” and then walk away.
Frankly it’s a feature that feels like it completely contradicts the point of online forums.
I agree.
But also downvoting is very useful as community moderation tool. I participate in some communities with regular, scummy spam posts that are technically off topic and not quite bannable. They’d get naive, hype driven upvotes if left alone. And I like that there’s a community mechanism to bury them.
Yeah I don’t think it’s entirely useless, it’s mostly useful for filtering out spam posts and unrelated stuff from communities.
Just on a comment/discussion level it feels like it’s not that great.
Can’t. I get way too invested in this shit and its bad for my mental health.
