A highly scientific analysis of which comments get upmarseyd here

I've been thinking about this comment for a long time.

I think in general the character of engagement with this site and the broader internet is changing.

I'm often skeptical of change narratives, because I tend to believe that the Internet didn't change humanity, just reveal it. Twitter didn't shorten our attention spans, our attention spans were already short.

That said, it's difficult to dispute because short-form video is an amplification of the hypnotic effect of the television. Even so...

Short-form video has widened the chasm between lurking and posting.

But people who only engage with the Internet through videos never posted. Most people don't read. Of those who do, most people don't write. This has always been true.

Without a culture oriented around shaming lurking, rdrama will follow the rest of the net in quietly starving to death.

It's worth noting that number up top has gone up even in the time since you posted this.

Simply shift yourself to engage sincerely with and to praise effortful content.

Well yes, this is good, but not because it will make a place more popular (though it might). This is a problem many small subreddits faced: they wanted hypergrowth without doing the work, focused on growth instead of making a good place. To really you must accept a place where it is as it is always.

Consistency is really really hard.

this is why tiktok and bird app have both started seriously rewarding creators with status and even money.

But this cheapens participation, hollowing it out. It's important to do things for the sake of simply doing them, simply. Thoreau: "Simplify, simplify, simplify."

Status comes to those who work, and then burdens those who are recognized. It's not something that can be controlled.

the next campaign must center on creating a memetic culture of engagement.

I don't know if this is a thing that can deliberately be done. Really the moderators can only encourage or discourage specific content as it comes up .

The great rightoid purge was successful to the point that

There's still some around and that's good because I came here to minister to rightoids specifically.

This is in the top five least-shitty websites on the entire fricking internet period right now.

I agree. It's surprised me.

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Whoever came up with the idea of an infinite scrolling feed of short-form video is unironically evil. It's 100% consumable/disposable, designed specifically to be forgettable rather than memorable.

The worst of them are the ones where people record themselves staring at the camera and then overlay some sound bite and maybe lay some text on top of it. There's no creativity or effort involved, since they didn't come up with the dialogue themselves, and half the time they don't even bother to lip sync. Even worse is that it's not just kids, it's often full grown men and women with jobs and kids doing this stuff for attention.

None of these words are in the Bible

How could there be a great rightoid purge if there were no rightoids to purge?

I like box office posts

figgernaggot

So has the posting of actual bussy pics.

I went through the first 5 pages of your comments and it was pretty much the same results as mine. Except my zero effort comments are a little more likely to get upmarseys than your zero effort comments.

• I found that your comments about meta stuff actually did pretty well. Apparently dramanauts are more obsessed with ourselves than we like to admit.

• It reminded me that hating bongs and journos also score well. In fact, hating any country at all probably does well, but some countries better than others.

Good idea.

Let me catch up on today's important threads first and then I will. Remind me if I forget.

Yeah, that was how you got points on reddit. I wouldn't make posts. I would go to the #1 or #2 comment on it and reply to that. Lots of people would look at the post, then start reading the comments. They get to the 2nd comment and they're still tossing upmarseys around. After that they get bored and leave.

We have the same thing here, except the capy actually tries to combat it. He's programmed it so there's some churn where new posts can displace old posts with lots of votes, so that you don't end up with a few posts dominating all day. I don't know if he's applied any of that to comments tho.

Oh my GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWD. They look like a cat in a certain way. The features they like in cats they also have.

OMG I used to have one like that.

Yeah, I just do it as a gimmick. Except for those effortposts about the Russians doping kids in the Olympics. That was gold. You gotta have a few gimmicks or else people will forget who you are. Understandable because we can't use faces or voices to distinguish each other.

Curling is the true sport of kings anyways.

He'll ask you a question, often one that you have to put time and thought into answering. And then he never upmarseys you.

What is a 'boomer movie' in this context anyway?

Spartacus?

The French Connection?

Wall Street?

There's people on this site who probably think the Tobey MacGuire Spiderman movies are boomer.

quality of the upmarseys

I pay special attention to who votes on those so I know who the real boomers are.

Are you telling me most people here are actually normies with jobs and just larp as neurodivergent r-slurs ? I thought I finally found my people

Well... uhhhh.... I skimmed through about 5 or 10 pages of my comments and like... looked at whole bunch of them.

Cyriak?

I also do this

If that was true, none of my comments would ever get upmarseyd

But they do sometimes

Frick you mimic! That was two thirds of my money!