reddit "monthly question threads" are such shit

[Uncle]

go to an individual game subreddit

ask a simple question hoping for random quick advice

"Hello from the moderators of this sub!  Unfortunately, your submission has been removed, as all questions should go in our official Monthly Questions Thread™.  Thanks!"

ask question in official monthly questions thread

receive no answer because who the fuck is bored or desperate enough to browse these giant clusterfuck megathreads specifically to answer questions

 

[nachobro]

the mmo subreddits like wow and ff14 at least do daily questions threads that are themed (healer, dps, tank, dungeon strats, w/e) so that helps. most other game subreddits stink at that kind of thing though.

[ToxicAdam]

I'm pretty guilty of that. The gaming subreddits I'm on, I never check the "ask threads". But I will refresh New about a thousand times a day.

[Great Rumbler]

Reddit sucks

[headwalk]

reddit's system is weighted to ensure the most boring/hysterical/boringly hysterical conversation possible.

[who is ted danson?]

Subreddits seem to have a high chance of turning into trash around the 10k subs mark in my experience. That's usually about the point they start hitting critical mass, and can rapidly be overwhelmed by idiots. Mega subs (100k+) are pretty much all trash unless they are explicitly for posting memes.

[james]

Reddit is only good for porn

[EightBitNate]

I get much more annoyed by rules employed by Reddit mods than I do with the things they’re designed to prevent.

[Don Rumata]

I eventually understood Twitter, especially after the character limit was raised.. although I still think it's used terribly all the time and people should just link to Medium posts instead of the stupid "327/678" shit... but reddit still baffles me.   Obviously get the concept of a massive user submitted forum and even the basic concept of upvotes.. but the actual site is just so impossible for me to parse.  It's like it should only be used to ask/answer basic questions or as a "list of things" site but instead people are trying to use it as a discussion forum. 

 

Twitter is home to some of the dumbest shit i've ever read, aside from maybe cesspools like 4chan (but then you never know who trolling on there).
I wouldn't go near it if i didn't have to.

It's a good tool if used as a way to communicate status updates with your followers, and similar things (for commercial purposes for example), unfortunately it's also used to share Youtube Comments-level humor and hot takes.

Classic v-bulletin type forums are still the king format, for any meaningful form of online discussion. 

What's odd is that i figured people didn't like forums anymore, because nobody wanted to type 2000 words on their phones (or in general), but then you get a sea of shitposting anyway and, as you mentioned, endless threads on Twitter. 

[Uncle]

I guess gamefaqs is still around

and seems active enough

they also have a bullshit q&a thing that doesn't work most of the time but there you can just make threads on any topic, somehow its model has remained minimally moderated

[demi]

There's no monthly thread on /r/bhmgonewild

Just lots of dicks

[nachobro]

Theres this star wars subreddit that surely I had to be linked fro  here that has like serious discussing of plot points and trying to make sense of shit that I enjoy to look at every 2 months

DaystromInstitute is that for Star Trek and it's actually fun to read once in a while

[Himu]

Reddit has been been run down by power driven nerds that think everything has to be a rule.

You can't even submit anything to Ask Reddit anymore unless you do their stupid format exactly the way they want it.

[ToxicAdam]

I like formatting rules (or requiring a flair) on posts. It really keeps the absolute inbreds from polluting the subs. They are incapable of following rules.




 

[ToxicAdam]

Reddit is just awful to use to me so I still don't get how it got so popular.

Reddit is pretty great at filling niches for conversation.

New mobile (or indie) games that just came out, fans of some internet celebrity, owners of certain products or brands, etc etc. Ways for people to talk about incredibly niche things that don't really have enough web traffic to justify it's own space.

[Himu]

I like formatting rules (or requiring a flair) on posts. It really keeps the absolute inbreds from polluting the subs. They are incapable of following rules.

The problem is that these days many subs have far too many rules just to post.

[ToxicAdam]

Which has nothing to do with the annoying hierchichal / upvote based thread display (at least the default.)

If 95% of your threads are only 10-20 replies, then it doesn't really make a difference.

It only becomes problematic when threads get into the hundreds and thousands of replies. Which is why people are telling you to avoid the mainstream subs.

[thisismyusername]

Which has nothing to do with the annoying hierchichal / upvote based thread display (at least the default.)

That's a relic of Digg, sadly. And people take the internet "karma"/point whoring SUPER seriously.

Reddit's good in the sense that you can basically "drill down" on finding something that you might want (or complain about, hello game subreddits). But it's pretty terrible for long-form conversations.

Twitter is good for micro-blogging, emphasis on "micro." The folks doing 100+ Tweet storms do it simply because Twitter's "audience" is built-in. As soon as they get scientific information (like how to combat the current epidemic) out, folks that find that good will re-tweet it, getting more eyes on it like (ironically) a virus spreading because even if you don't follow that scientist, someone you know may in a "six degrees of Kevin Bacon" way.

Reddit doesn't have that, so it's a mess for stuff like their "Ask Me Anything" that the CDC(? or WHO) did for the virus as it was blowing up in the news.

[headwalk]

Reddit has been been run down by power driven nerds that think everything has to be a rule.

You can't even submit anything to Ask Reddit anymore unless you do their stupid format exactly the way they want it.

it's also an astroturfer's wet dream.

[OnlyRegret]

thanks for the heckin' golderino, frienderino

[thisismyusername]

thanks for the heckin' golderino, frienderino

Pete's dropping out "megathread" in /r/politics getting a bunch of "feels good, man"-level awards made me at reddit folks using their credit cards on a chinese owned social media platform.