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Is the Tildes section model compatible with injokes and microcultures?
Something you see frequently on Reddit are subreddits that have developed their own slang, jokes and references. That's part of the reason why Reddit feels like a collection of communities more than one website divided into sections, which is what Tildes look like right now.
The question is, do we want that sort of stuff here?
It's inevitable that any group of people will develop their own inside jokes and cultural norms. One of the problem with reddit is that those jokes and cultural norms usually involve incredible low effort posts / comments — tildes seeks to replace those norms with high-effort ones. It'll probably take some time for those to develop as the tildes groups haven't really developed their own communities of people since the site is so small. I'd imagine once the site is bigger it'll happen.
Reddit's underlying vote system and pseudo-gamefication meant that there was incentive to pander to in-jokes and low effort posts. It remains to be seen if this will be the case for Tildes as well.
Of course, but there's a difference between site-wide culture and section-wide culture, that's what I'm getting at.
Insider references naturally occur at all levels of groupings. You'll have site-wide cultures affecting group subcultures and vice versa all happening organically. It's just how people interact.
Reddit billed itself from the introduction of subreddits (it didn't have them to start with) as a platform for communities. I.e. autonomy was given. That could encourage a sub culture.
If any of you were members of web forums or bulletin boards you will rmemeber that sub forums also developed individual identities (SA is a good example).
I think that with any artificial or natural barriers between communication for enough time with a large enough population will lead to divergent cultures.
I think that trying to curate the culture is best done by setting expectations for decorum. If the whole site has the same set of rules the culture will be more homogenous than not. But, if there are different rules or expectations then there will be an eventual divergance.
I think that I want the culture to respect facts above all. That's what I want from comments.
I can't tell you how fucking tedious, how painfully unfunny, most of these inside jokes are. They are corrosive, and they destroy communities. They're the poster child of low effort.
Here's one example: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/search?q=pineapple&restrict_sr=1