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  • Lawdog
    +17

    XP grinding was my biggest concern about Snapzu. Karma whoring was a real thing on reddit, and karma was useless. Here it has actual value for your browsing experience. That said, most of my comments are a paragraph or less. I do my browsing on mobile, so I'm not going to be writing a dissertation on my phone, and I'm not opposed to a good (or cheesy) one-liner. I like my Internet with a bit of snark.

    • Mewt
      +7

      Yeah...not really feeling the short post hate myself! Sometimes you feel like contributing, or even backing up what's been said, without writing a paragraph. :\

      • Chesham
        +3

        Indeed. I'm a man of few words, and I think as long as it contributes to the conversation it's not really a huge issue. That being said, most comments that contribute will probably be longer than 5 words.

      • cailihphiliac
        +2

        You can back up what's been said, and show your support by upvoting, or whatever it's called here.

    • ressmox
      +4

      I'm alright with one-liners if they are used in the right places. What I dislike is when a snap that has solid potential for discussion is overridden by quips and pointless comments. A lot of threads on other sites get populated mostly with pedantry, repetition of jokes/opinions that are only marginally relevant, or useless stuff like linking to a specific subreddit/tribe as a 'joke'.

      If it's a thread on /t/funny or something I'm ok with there being jokes or quips or comments that are just gifs. But if someone posts an article that warrants discussion and all the comments are 'MRW' or pedantry, I get pretty annoyed. I guess it's more about users understanding context and commenting accordingly, which I think makes for a better community.

      • Lawdog
        +1

        Yeah, context is everything. I might post a quip on a sports highlight, but I probably wouldn't post anything on a physics article. I like physics; I like reading about breakthroughs in physics, but I would have nothing of value to add beyond, "Yea Quarks!"

        • blue2501
          +1

          And yet people bitch about downvoting here. Downvoting because you don't agree with the opinion is bad. Downvoting because it's shitty content is good.

    • kvn (edited 8 years ago)
      +4

      There's a certain somebody on this tribe that basically copy and pastes "hellos" to new users...Really annoying IMO

      • trevp
        +1

        copy and pasting "hello"? Jesus and I thought I was lazy.

    • blue2501
      +1

      Meh, karma is still useless. I wish people would stop worrying so much about it.