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I can agree with the community sentiment. Feels like we skimmed off the top layer of nerds from Reddit and they’re all ornery while trying to adapt to their new environment. I say that as one of them, lol.
I get that this is a relatively new frontier, but jeezaloo there are a lot of negative nellies around. “It’s the internet, block/ignore them” yadda yadda, sure, but it just feels like a more sizable amount of people who would close stackoverflow threads as “duplicate” and link to a thread that doesn’t answer the original poster’s question, ya feel me? Like, those kinds of Redditors.
I get that “remember the human” is an old, cringey netiquette, but I wish more folks on here would take that to heart. Hard to sell Lemmy as a viable alternative when folks treat people like they’re beneath them.
I think reddit actually peaked when it was angry uptight nerds, youd get massdownvoted and comments shting on you if you said something fundamentally wrong, it discouraged you from joining conversations til you actually knew what you were talking about. Like, when you goto teach someone, they ask why, and you can't answer, it encourages you to know the why/how, etc. before speaking. Theyd kinda encourage (in an agressive manor) you to know before speaking.
I personally saw more massdownvoting of uninformed people asking genuine questions than I have of uninformed people making uninformed statements. Search engines are getting worse and worse nowadays, I don’t want people to be discouraged to ask a human a question when they’re uninformed.
I’m all for preventing the spread of misinformation, especially in this day and age. Downvoting wrong comments helps when it’s done against something genuinely wrong. However, I don’t want to foster an environment where people are scared of getting yelled out of the room for not knowing about something.
People who are confidently incorrect should be ridiculed, but people who are unconfidently incorrect should be assisted, dig?
I joined around 2013
Makes me wonder how many on here were around when the term was coined and the behaviour was mostly expected.