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Reddit, Tildes and their culture/behavior surrounding jokes. What are your thoughts on them?

Do you sometimes find yourself typing up a joke reply typical of Reddit but then remember this is Tildes and stop? I do it quite often (less and less the more time I spend on the site, however).

I'm even doing it less and less on Reddit itself. Like, yeah, the puns is one of the things I used to love about Reddit the most when I first joined. But that's sort of the problem.

There's always new people joining and finding the beaten-to-death jokes hilarious and so they upvote them. Which means, after one year or two 90% of Reddit jokes are old to you and have been repeated ad nauseam.

Not only that, but since they're a quick and sure way to gain others' approval (via karma) people often try to force them anywhere. No matter how inappropriate they are at that time, how forced and out of place they look. To the point that they're often the first child comment of serious comments asking serious questions.

Which means that if you're interested in reading the serious answer to that question you have scroll down past the joke, and that's even provided there's an actual answer. And I'm pretty sure many questions are left unanswered because whoever has a relevant serious answer won't feel like wasting their time typing up a reply no one will see because it will be buried under the joke reply.

With that said, what do you think of “silly” or “witty” jokes on Tildes? Do you think they should be encouraged? Discouraged? That nothing should be done about them? What about the ones that get repeated ad nauseam, are they even controllable?

I also just remembered there was talk about introducing a “joke” tag that would allow users to not see them if they don't want to or to see only jokes if they so wish. What do you think of this tag proposal? I think it could be very, very useful.


Disclaimer:

There is a chance that some users will interpret this post as some form of rant or an attempt at policing the site even further. I just want to state that my objective with this post is to spark a general and open discussion about this topic, to gauge the opinions of other users and get a feel for what the general community thinks about them (if there's an overwhelming majority that shares an opinion, or if the community is highly fragmented with regards to the topic and if so, in what proportions... etc), to see if there's anything that we can do about it or if there's anything that should be done at all, for example. I am not trying to spark controversy or drama and I mean my post to be one that's constructive, friendly, in good faith and respectful and not on that's toxic or negative or disrespectful.

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  1. [2]
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    1. Askme_about_penguins
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      Yeah. I use RES to filter out certain reddit jokes. And avoid most bigger subs.

      Yeah. I use RES to filter out certain reddit jokes. And avoid most bigger subs.

      3 votes
  2. [11]
    frickindeal
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    I'm not opposed to jokes on Tildes as a concept, but I definitely don't want to see anywhere near the level of repetitive memes, jokes, image macros and such that are inevitably in just about...

    I'm not opposed to jokes on Tildes as a concept, but I definitely don't want to see anywhere near the level of repetitive memes, jokes, image macros and such that are inevitably in just about every reddit thread. People have realized that it's a surefire way to generate karma, and karma caused a dopamine spike, so they continue the circle-jerk of repetitive jokes.

    r/Science seems to avoid them almost entirely. I'm not sure if that's due to that sub's heavily-moderated nature, or the type of people who are drawn to the sub, but they're much less common there, and any that I do see are usually either original or highly relevant to the OP. I mod r/CuriosityRover there, and we don't really allow jokes—but the content is almost all submitted by one user, and the comments are few. It was only a busy sub directly after the rover landed, when a small mod team made sure content was relevant to the science of the mission.

    I'd like to see Tildes handled a bit more like that, moderation-wise. Jokes aren't inherently bad, and well-placed original material shoulnd't really be stifled IMO, but it has to be kept in check in some way or it devolves into reddit-level silliness.

    18 votes
    1. [6]
      Algernon_Asimov
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      They explicitly forbid these jokes in their rules. Their #1 comment rule is "No off-topic comments, memes, or jokes".

      r/Science seems to avoid them almost entirely. I'm not sure if that's due to that sub's heavily-moderated nature,

      They explicitly forbid these jokes in their rules. Their #1 comment rule is "No off-topic comments, memes, or jokes".

      17 votes
      1. [5]
        frickindeal
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        I suppose that rule allows for topical memes and jokes as written, though, if we apply the descriptor "off-topic" to all three items in that list. I wonder if that was their intention, or if...

        I suppose that rule allows for topical memes and jokes as written, though, if we apply the descriptor "off-topic" to all three items in that list. I wonder if that was their intention, or if "off-topic" only applies to "comments" in that list?

        1 vote
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          Algernon_Asimov
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          This is called "rules-lawyering" by moderators on Reddit, and it's extremely frustrating. The intent of that rule should be very clear: they want relevant comments which aren't memes or jokes....

          This is called "rules-lawyering" by moderators on Reddit, and it's extremely frustrating.

          The intent of that rule should be very clear: they want relevant comments which aren't memes or jokes. But, no, there's always someone who points out the loophole that seemingly allows their particular joke comment. So you write a more descriptive rule to close that loophole. Then someone else points out another loophole that allows their joke comment. So you re-write the rule again. And so it goes, until eventually you've had to write a 6-paragraph mini-essay just to explain a "No jokes" rule.

          Then people complain that the rules are too lengthy to read. GRR!!!

          6 votes
          1. soundeziner
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            THIS! and automod removal responses get longer and longer so people gloss over them...yep yep

            And so it goes, until eventually you've had to write a 6-paragraph mini-essay just to explain a "No jokes" rule. Then people complain that the rules are too lengthy to read. GRR!!!

            THIS! and automod removal responses get longer and longer so people gloss over them...yep yep

            3 votes
    2. [4]
      floppy
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      I think the best way to keep this community free of the sort of drivel you're talking about is to cultivate a culture that discourages it, rather than try to enforce it as a rule. On Usenet, for...

      I think the best way to keep this community free of the sort of drivel you're talking about is to cultivate a culture that discourages it, rather than try to enforce it as a rule. On Usenet, for example, you would be told that a certain degree of common sense is necessary, and perhaps even notified about certain etiquette. On top of this you'd be a single person entering a developed community, and you'd have to fit in to a certain degree and refrain from doing certain things. You didn't need moderation as much because it was very self-moderated. So, everyone should police themselves.

      I personally enjoy flaming people online at times, and in those situations I don't make any attempts to be less harsh, but by familiarizing myself with ~ I know that this isn't acceptable here, so I keep that sort of behavior to the boards and forums where it is not out of place. That's the same thing I expect of other people here as well.

      One thing I find a bit off putting and something that could be problematic is the fact that ~ draws the majority of its userbase from reddit, and by siphoning off of an already developed community, ~ is starting off by inheriting some of the shortcomings of reddit, and IMHO it feels a bit too much like reddit in here for my tastes. Despite this, I think that ~ is doing a pretty good job so far, but essentially it's more important to have new members adjust properly and avoid an eternal September type situation, and to maintain a sense of self-moderation.

      4 votes
      1. [3]
        frickindeal
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        This concerns me as well. I get a slight cringe reaction every time I see a new invite round there, not because I want Tildes to remain exclusive, but because I keep waiting for the other shoe to...

        One thing I find a bit off putting and something that could be problematic is the fact that ~ draws the majority of its userbase from reddit, and by siphoning off of an already developed community, ~ is starting off by inheriting some of the shortcomings of reddit

        This concerns me as well. I get a slight cringe reaction every time I see a new invite round there, not because I want Tildes to remain exclusive, but because I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop, for us to start seeing some of the same things we see on reddit here. So far it's been pretty good; jokes are kept to a minimum and are generally very topical, but reddit has so many more problems that aren't easily corrected, it's a constant fear.

        I always remember what happened to digg, and not the redesign thing. digg was rolling along as a pretty damn good site early on; there was good tech and science discussion, there were good people there. Then the ASCII art thing started happening. Many people would downvote the inevitable giraffe or naked lady in every comment section, but later they received huge upvotes and many were top posts. digg was dead to me long before the migration to reddit, because I was already on reddit and had long ago abandoned it.

        1 vote
        1. clem
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          Yet Reddit is enormous and has tons of great content and discussion. I personally see very little of the "meme" content discussed on this thread because I've unsubscribed from many of the default...

          Yet Reddit is enormous and has tons of great content and discussion. I personally see very little of the "meme" content discussed on this thread because I've unsubscribed from many of the default subreddits. I browse Reddit for specific topics I'm interested in--compsting/gardening/soil improvement, videogames, hockey, politics (yet I avoid the default political subs--I'm more interested in /r/NeutralNews, /r/NeutralPolitics, /r/geopolitics, etc.)--and I'm sure there are many, many people on Reddit who are similar. I would agree with you if Tildes advertised in the most popular subreddits, but I expect that the people attracted to Tildes are the people who find many aspects of Reddit distasteful.

          3 votes
        2. floppy
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          Well, I think one of the nice things about the invite system is that we have the power to influence how the site grows by inviting people who we think will make it better (as opposed to a reddit...

          Well, I think one of the nice things about the invite system is that we have the power to influence how the site grows by inviting people who we think will make it better (as opposed to a reddit clone). Personally, I will be giving out my 5 invites to people I've already met online in IRC chatrooms; or through Neocities, where we host our own sites and met that way; and people I've bumped into on various SSH boards or regular Web imageboards. I hope that it will encourage a different kind of user to come here and give ~ some more depth.

          2 votes
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    1. Botato
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      I mean, we're not robots! If something's funny, it's funny. Honestly, I think not having ratings for comments will be enough to deter overusing stale jokes and memes. That's always been a big...

      I mean, we're not robots! If something's funny, it's funny.

      Honestly, I think not having ratings for comments will be enough to deter overusing stale jokes and memes. That's always been a big problem of Reddit.

      It's almost a conflict of interest in the system itself , in that interesting conversation is rarely something unanimously liked.

      7 votes
    2. Aquarius
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      I agree. In reference to the post here, I think jokes are okay as long as they're original. No copy/pastas (maybe once in a blue moon), and no references to reddit-specific jokes like the broken...

      I agree. In reference to the post here,

      With that said, what do you think of “silly” or “witty” jokes on Tildes?

      I think jokes are okay as long as they're original. No copy/pastas (maybe once in a blue moon), and no references to reddit-specific jokes like the broken arms guy. If we get our own in-jokes at some point those could be fun to use, but hopefully not to the point that they're beaten to death less than 2 days after their inception.

      7 votes
    3. StellarV
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      Yeah my top post on Reddit is a bad penis joke that I got over 2000 upvotes on.

      Yeah my top post on Reddit is a bad penis joke that I got over 2000 upvotes on.

      3 votes
  4. Eylrid
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    I don't like cheap jokes. They're unoriginal, and repetitive, and irritating and they get everywhere. It's so annoying to open the comments for an interesting post on reddit hopping for some good...

    I don't like cheap jokes. They're unoriginal, and repetitive, and irritating and they get everywhere. It's so annoying to open the comments for an interesting post on reddit hopping for some good conversation about it only to find puns and memes. Tildes may not have a lot of content yet, but it has a high signal to noise ratio.

    There are some high quality subreddits and they all have one thing in common: strong moderation. If Tildes is going to keep its quality as it grows good moderation will be crucial.

    13 votes
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    Lynndolynn
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    I personally enjoy a lot of those cheap jokes. Half the reason I get on Reddit in the first place was for quick and cheap entertainment. I appreciate that others wouldn't want to see them in the...

    I personally enjoy a lot of those cheap jokes. Half the reason I get on Reddit in the first place was for quick and cheap entertainment. I appreciate that others wouldn't want to see them in the main boards, and I fully support that sentiment, but is there space on Tildes for memes or shitposting for those of us who do enjoy it? I'm thinking along the lines of /r/me_irl or /r/traa. We could call these kinds of spaces ~memes or ~lgbt.memes, for example.

    9 votes
    1. [12]
      Algernon_Asimov
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      I've noticed that you're new here (welcome!). You might be interested in some of these old discussions about this: Daily Tildes discussion - why should we allow (or not allow) fluff content? How...

      is there space on Tildes for memes or shitposting for those of us who do enjoy it?

      I've noticed that you're new here (welcome!). You might be interested in some of these old discussions about this:

      13 votes
      1. [11]
        Lynndolynn
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        Thanks! I'm enjoying the site, and it's rather refreshing not to have to deal with downvotes. The conversations have been good, too. :) Reading a couple of those topics, I'm really attracted to...

        Thanks! I'm enjoying the site, and it's rather refreshing not to have to deal with downvotes. The conversations have been good, too. :)

        Reading a couple of those topics, I'm really attracted to the "quarantine to ~fluff" and "use and filter by the fluff tag" ideas. From my point of view, I'd like not to have to switch sites to go from light fluff to serious discussion, even if I have to switch my filters.

        I do understand the concern that allowing fluff will attract users who don't want or aren't capable of serious discussion, and these users can leak out of ~fluff and take over more serious boards. I wonder if strong moderation and liberal use of the "joke" and "noise" comment tags would help curtail that, though.

        5 votes
        1. [7]
          Askme_about_penguins
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          The thing is, we are sort of... uhm... ”reddit refugees”. Most of us come here to escape from the bad (what we consider bad) behaviors that plage reddit, including jokes (almost everyone who has...

          The thing is, we are sort of... uhm... ”reddit refugees”. Most of us come here to escape from the bad (what we consider bad) behaviors that plage reddit, including jokes (almost everyone who has replied to my post so far is against them). If we wanted jokes, we could just as easily browse reddit for a while, to get that “fun content” fix.

          You say you'd like to have both serious and light content here to avoid switching sites. But, with Tildes being so small, you're bound to having to switch sites anyway.

          So, I believe that, as for now, light, easy jokes aren't going to be a part of the Tildes' community. Since 1. most users are here to get away from these jokes specifically and 2. there's just no need for them having and knowing our way around reddit.

          Now, as to whether that will change in the future as Tildes grows and attracts more users (we might even have a massive Reddit exodus that comes here, like what happened to Reddit and Digg or Reddit and Voat), I honestly don't know. But for now, there really doesn't seem to exist a place for it in the current community.

          10 votes
          1. Lynndolynn
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            I mean, I'm a Reddit refugee, too, just for different reasons. My primary concerns have been with the admins and the tolerance of hatred (i.e. homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism,...

            I mean, I'm a Reddit refugee, too, just for different reasons. My primary concerns have been with the admins and the tolerance of hatred (i.e. homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, etc.) that seems to be common across the site. It's the exception, rather than the rule, to find subs where none of this is tolerated and I can say "I'm trans" without getting negative responses. From what I've seen so far, Tildes's community (and particularly Deimos) have a strong stance against that.

            Obviously, right now I'm having to switch sites because, as you said, Tildes is small. I'm fine with that for now. My suggestion was more of a "why don't we consider this for the future" idea than a "let's do this now" idea.

            I also think we have slightly different ideas of jokes. I completely understand wanting to get away from the pun threads, and the constant stale references, and the often awful jokes in /r/Jokes or /r/funny. The kinds of jokey content I look for are the kind people post to blow off steam over something that happened or to celebrate something, as you might find in /r/traa or /r/TrollXChromosomes (two of the jokier subs I follow).

            7 votes
          2. ourari
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            Those who feel strongly are more likely to speak out. I don't feel strongly about it either way, so I'm not vocal on the matter. I do believe that it's best to have a place for people to vent/wind...

            (almost everyone who has replied to my post so far is against them)

            Those who feel strongly are more likely to speak out.

            I don't feel strongly about it either way, so I'm not vocal on the matter. I do believe that it's best to have a place for people to vent/wind down in-between high-effort, intense discussion. Regulating 'fluff' rather than banning it outright would be the best solution, imo.

            But again, I don't feel strongly about it so I'm not vocal about it, which apparently has the effect of skewing your view.

            7 votes
          3. [3]
            Algernon_Asimov
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            Be careful about that sort of inclusive statement. A lot of the original Tildeans who were here in the first month or so came from other sites, like Hacker News and other tech-oriented forums -...

            The thing is, we are sort of... uhm... ”reddit refugees”.

            Be careful about that sort of inclusive statement. A lot of the original Tildeans who were here in the first month or so came from other sites, like Hacker News and other tech-oriented forums - and new Tildeans are probably still trickling in from those sites. Yes, many of us later Tildeans are from Reddit, and a lot of people came via invititation threads on /r/Tildes, but we can never assume that everyone here comes from Reddit.

            5 votes
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              Amarok
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              Yeah, the invites hit a couple places already. First it made the rounds in reddit slack/irc/discord channels, starting out with the mod channels and then whoever they wanted to share it with. That...

              Yeah, the invites hit a couple places already.

              First it made the rounds in reddit slack/irc/discord channels, starting out with the mod channels and then whoever they wanted to share it with. That was about a week, a couple hundred users. Then we had the hackernews thread which brought in around 1k people from over there.

              Then it started making the rounds on reddit, mostly places like /r/privacy and /r/redditalternatives, with a major 2.5k upvotes thread in /r/truereddit. We'd just then created /r/tildes and that's where another 2k came in very fast.

              Now it's just a couple hundred a week from /r/tildes, but it's also been quiet with no new posts about Tildes on the rest of reddit for over a month. Next time the admins there do something boneheaded we'll probably get another wave.

              I've also seen invite threads in the wilderness of the chan boards, they pop up semi-regular in 4chan /g/ and once in a while on the lesser known ones.

              8 votes
              1. Algernon_Asimov
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                Thanks for the background! :) That's where I found out about it.

                Thanks for the background! :)

                with a major 2.5k upvotes thread in /r/truereddit.

                That's where I found out about it.

                2 votes
          4. Amarok
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            If the bubble-up mechanics we have plans for actually work to select quality, they should work just as well on fluff content as on regular content. Someday we'll probably experiment with some of...

            If the bubble-up mechanics we have plans for actually work to select quality, they should work just as well on fluff content as on regular content. Someday we'll probably experiment with some of it after that system is in place and vetted. Until then, though, do we really want to be dealing with that stuff when we have a site to build? Just doesn't seem as important. How much do we trust ourselves, perhaps it's better to remove temptation until we're able to handle it better. Kinda why we don't have a ~politics yet either.

            3 votes
        2. spit-evil-olive-tips
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          The problem is that "fast" content (image macros, memes, and funny GIFs that take only a few seconds to laugh at, upvote, and move on) will inevitably crowd out "slow" content (articles or essays...

          The problem is that "fast" content (image macros, memes, and funny GIFs that take only a few seconds to laugh at, upvote, and move on) will inevitably crowd out "slow" content (articles or essays that take a few minutes or more to read and ponder). They cannot coexist.

          Even if you had a perfect moderation scheme to keep the two separate (which I don't think is possible, but suppose it was) you'd end up with 90%+ fast content and 10% slow content, and network effects would mean that ratio would constantly get worse. Tildes would eventually look more or less identical to reddit as it is today.

          9 votes
        3. [2]
          Algernon_Asimov
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          You should also have seen that the strongest feeling was to just not host fluff on Tildes in the first place. I've seen Deimos write, in a different context, that quarantining undesired behaviour...

          I'm really attracted to the "quarantine to ~fluff" and "use and filter by the fluff tag" ideas.

          You should also have seen that the strongest feeling was to just not host fluff on Tildes in the first place. I've seen Deimos write, in a different context, that quarantining undesired behaviour doesn't work. If you give people specific groups to post fluff and nonsense, those people will assume that their fluff and nonsense is acceptable everywhere else as well. The behaviour will spread.

          I'd like not to have to switch sites to go from light fluff to serious discussion

          I'm pretty sure you're already used to switching sites for different purposes. :) You switch to a bank site to do banking, you switch to a shopping site to buy stuff, you switch to a porn site to view porn (if that's your thing), you switch to a video site to watch videos, and so on.

          Every single website has its own specific purpose. A website doesn't have to be everything to everyone; it can have its own little niche purpose. Tildes' niche purpose is "high-quality content and discussions" and "in-depth content (primarily text-based)". That's our value proposition, our point of difference, our mission statement.

          7 votes
          1. Lynndolynn
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            Yes, I did see that, I'm just expressing my disagreement and proposing an alternative. :) I agree, but what I (respectfully) disagree with is the idea that sharing serious links and sharing fluff...

            You should also have seen that the strongest feeling was to just not host fluff on Tildes in the first place.

            Yes, I did see that, I'm just expressing my disagreement and proposing an alternative. :)

            Every single website has its own specific purpose.

            I agree, but what I (respectfully) disagree with is the idea that sharing serious links and sharing fluff are different enough to require different sites. The purpose, from my vantage, is sharing and discussing, whether the content or discussion are serious or not - effectively, social media.

            (incoming wall of text warning)

            As an example of my activities on Reddit, I visit /r/SpaceX to read about and discuss news about SpaceX, and I visit /r/traa to blow off steam and share experiences with other trans people. /r/SpaceX tends toward the content you (and many, many others) are advocating Tildes be all about - serious discussion, low fluff, minimum on the low-effort jokes / memes / circlejerking. /r/traa, on the other hand, is primarily a non-serious meme sub. But while the posts on /r/traa are primarily image macros or memes, the comments have people providing each other advice, sharing similar experiences, and sharing related media (i.e. TV shows, movies, books, etc. relevant to the discussion). It's not always serious discussion, but it's discussion nonetheless. /r/TrollXChromosomes is similar in that regard.

            Regarding fluff spilling over out of quarantine, I think effective moderation can squash that. Using /r/SpaceX as an example again, a while back the mods split fluff content off of the main subreddit and into /r/SpaceXLounge. It was rough for a while at first, with a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth from the user base, but the mods have done, in my opinion, a pretty good job of quarantining fluff to /r/SpaceXLounge and keeping it out of /r/SpaceX. This can only be made easier with comment tagging to allow users to help self-police discussions.

            Part of the reason I feel strongly about this is that I'd ideally like to move away from Reddit permanently. The admins don't seem to listen to the users and they let hatred fester in large communities on the site but don't help police said hatred spilling over into other communities (which can come in large waves rather than the occasional noise of fluff). Deimos, on the other hand, seems incredibly receptive to the users and intolerant of hatred, so Tildes seems ideal to me. I don't mind having different rules, different communities, and different content; I'd just like to have a site that fulfills both of my needs - serious and jokey/blow-off discussions.

            Again, I fully understand your point of view and I respect that a large section of the site (if not the majority) share it. I just disagree, and wanted to share my point of view. This topic has been discussed to death, though, so I'll stop here if you like. :)

            9 votes
    2. unknown user
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      I would certainly not appreciate a ~memes tilde. I think it's not unreasonable to hope that one, one small discussion board on the internet remains free of regurgitated vomit.

      I would certainly not appreciate a ~memes tilde. I think it's not unreasonable to hope that one, one small discussion board on the internet remains free of regurgitated vomit.

      9 votes
    3. floppy
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      Frankly, the fact that reddit and a whole host of sites dedicated to memes and thoughtless content exist, is in my opinion a good enough reason to keep if off ~. We don't need that kind of content...

      Frankly, the fact that reddit and a whole host of sites dedicated to memes and thoughtless content exist, is in my opinion a good enough reason to keep if off ~. We don't need that kind of content to make ~ a fully formed community; we can get by fine without it. If you're here looking for that sort of content, then you're probably in the wrong place.

      That being said if the other stuff is put into its own containment group, then it doesn't really bother me. The problem is the kind of users it will attract which may inadvertently lower the level of discussion on the site as a whole.

      5 votes
  6. Algernon_Asimov
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    No, because I was never that kind of user. Those jokes always seemed silly and puerile to me, and I never posted them. My two favourite subreddits I've moderated also happen to be two subreddits...

    Do you sometimes find yourself typing up a joke reply typical of Reddit but then remember this is Tildes and stop?

    No, because I was never that kind of user. Those jokes always seemed silly and puerile to me, and I never posted them. My two favourite subreddits I've moderated also happen to be two subreddits where those jokes are explicitly forbidden - and I don't think that's a coincidence.

    Don't get me wrong: I'm not always serious. But my style of humour isn't the same as the popular Reddit style. It only suits certain contexts, so I was always very selective about when/where I tried to be funny.

    With that said, what do you think of “silly” or “witty” jokes on Tildes? Do you think they should be encouraged? Discouraged?

    One reason I'm drawn to Tildes is that it seems like that sort of silly one-line/pun joke will be discouraged here. I don't think that the "high-quality discussion" Deimos is trying to foster on Tildes includes long strings of puns, or simple one-line jokes.

    6 votes
  7. Jankinator
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    What about a TV show or movie getting mentioned, followed by a string of random references? I can enjoy a reference that works well in context, but nothing annoys me more than a bunch of unrelated...

    What about a TV show or movie getting mentioned, followed by a string of random references?

    I can enjoy a reference that works well in context, but nothing annoys me more than a bunch of unrelated references.

    4 votes
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      1. Askme_about_penguins
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        It's my understanding the community is meant for text-based discussion. To the point Deimos doesn't even plan on adding the option to post images directly to Tildes. So I'd doubt it would have a...

        It's my understanding the community is meant for text-based discussion. To the point Deimos doesn't even plan on adding the option to post images directly to Tildes. So I'd doubt it would have a place in here.

        6 votes
  9. mrbig
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    From the new topic page: I think the heavy focus on informative content that is clear on every discussion and Tildes related guidelines is not very conducive to comedy. Yes, there are many silly,...

    From the new topic page:

    Please avoid posting topics that are primarily for entertainment or that don't have discussion value.

    I think the heavy focus on informative content that is clear on every discussion and Tildes related guidelines is not very conducive to comedy. Yes, there are many silly, annoying jokes on Reddit, but I think that, in the case of comedy, it is necessary to allow some shitty content for a community to create a good culture of internal jokes. Humour requires spontaneity. And, if the Tildes community decides that preserving this environment from silliness is more important than having good jokes, so be it. There's Reddit for that.

    3 votes
  10. Torgine
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    Mate, it’s really just a sinple matter of how witty it is. If it’s done right, good on ya. If it’s hamfisted to hell and back, take it to the back and shoot it in the head.

    Mate, it’s really just a sinple matter of how witty it is. If it’s done right, good on ya. If it’s hamfisted to hell and back, take it to the back and shoot it in the head.

    2 votes