Aargh.

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  • Thats why I added “perfectly legitimate” ;D I mean, silly/dumb questions are going to get silly and dumb answers.

    But for example, I used to be a car mechanic, came across a problem, went to reddit and asked if anyone has come across the same problem and how they fixed it, I got 3 “if you can’t figure this out you shouldn’t be a mechanic” answers, one “I don’t know sounds bad lol” andswer and one asking for more information that ended up not going anywhere. After that, I started to notice similar patterns more often and everywhere.

    I do realize I haven’t been active on lemmy for too long and this is not really a place where people come with their questions so the sample size is a bit lacking. But people seem to be more friendlier and… human. And not in a “not a bot” way, but more down to earth and not trying to score internet points or be the first one to make the joke.



  • Or you were lucky or I was unlucky

    Probably bit of both.

    so many subreddits have a thing now where you have to have karma in threads

    Yeah thats one of the stupidest things. I get the time limit, but the karma requirement is just stupid. Why do I need to go talk in places I’m not interested in talking, with people who I don’t care for, if I want to make a comment about stuff that actually interests me. Such a weird thing.

    But anyhow, its finally over and lemmy and other places are so much better lol. At least here the top 90% of comments arent the same reddit jokes and the users don’t start insulting you when you ask a perfectly legitimate question.



  • Huh, that’s weird that I basically got away with that. I used to switch to a new account every 6 months or so. It started when some weirdo started to follow me and commenting on every single comment I made. I think it was in 2013-14 somewhere around then. Ever since then, I threw away one to two accounts per year. The past few years it was more like every month or two. I was very active in /r/Formula1, they had 1 month time limit on new accounts, so once I was allowed to comment there, I’d throw away the old account. At times I used multiple accounts at the same time, one got suspended, I just logged into another. I know it was ban evasion or whatever, though it started as a way to keep the weirdos at bay.

    Anyway, I never got burned because of that. I guess I wasn’t bad enough to be on their radar.