Following a conversation / thread is a hot mess at the best of times, it’s mostly just brain farts, and #people #write #out #things #like #this #as #some #sort #of #shitty #search #engine #optimization #because #EVERYONE #MUST #FIND #MY #BRAIN #FART #AT #ALL #COSTS .
If you have something of substance to say, just blog it or make a post on a proper platform where you can actually make your point without the reader having to put together the worst IKEA jigsaw puzzle known to humans. The technology to edit/update a post has existed forever, so it’s stupid to just keep replying to yourself as new information “breaks”.
Microblogging is dumb.
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We both know that this audience is not the same as the one at those places. Still, point taken, my objection here was a bit weak.
I just ran over the last 20 posts. I’d say about 4 or 5 are obviously popular opinions (eg. the one on organ donation), a bunch are blah-neutral (eg. the one on space terminology), and only about 4 or 5 are obviously unpopular (artists and AI etc). Actually, a really unpopular opinion was the one I posted - but I just noticed it broke rule #1! You should have deleted it! I’m completely serious.
You think I’m annoying with my “gatekeeping”, I get it. And yeah, you saw me doing it in !Showerthoughts, where the mods are AWOL. Eventually I gave up and left.
The reason I do it is that is that I want Lemmy to succeed. That means quality control, which means gatekeeping. It should really be done by the moderator, but in a bunch of communities the mods are completely out to lunch. You are not - so thank you. I know it’s a thankless task, as you just proved by telling me to “knock the fuck off”, which definitely breaks rule #2 (but I forgive you).