It really grinds my gears when there’s an c/asklemmy question and the top most responses are single word answers.
For example, a question asking for the most mind-bending movie will often have the same few movies upvoted to the top (“The Matrix”, “Inception”, “Finding Nemo 2”, etc).
Those truly might be the most popular mind-bending movies, but what I really want to know is why the person answering the question feels the way that they do. Otherwise these types of questions can become stale very quickly, as can be seen on other platforms.
Thoughts?
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No
^this
You’re asking for a much more intense “quality control” kind of moderation that is one of the reasons Reddit is sinking. That’s asking for a lot more mod actions, which is a lot more time spent moderating, and also results in some degree of subjective application of rules for “quality”. Heavy mod workloads and subjective decisions tends to drive good, well-balanced mods away (they have actual lives to lead with less time to mod) and only attracts the shitstains with nothing better to do who mod for their own personal power.
Downvote a comment if it isn’t contributory. That’s what the button is for (not a “I disagree”).
Edit: also many of those one word answers spawn a lot of good discussion underneath them. So they’re not always totally worthless
You know, maybe we just need more than one button.
“Does not contribute to the discussion”, “I disagree”, “I don’t necessarily disagree but this person aligns to a different political ideology and therefore I feel the need to object to their presence in some way”…
There’s no way to add an automated rule -> if c/asklemmy then comment should have 5 words minimum else don’t allow reply?
No no no no no.
There’s not even a way to count words at this juncture never mind anything resembling a rules engine.
If() comment<5 words;
Else();
As long as they answer the OP, they’re valid. It’s up to others to ask follow up questions, if they want more discussion.
No
This
Nope
No
Agreed
I don’t have a particularly strong opinion - my first thought is that it conflicts with “loosely moderated”. If people have upvoted an answer, I’m happy to let that stand.
You want descriptive answers? Make a descriptive question.
It can be as simple as ‘what is “x” and why?’
Missed opportunity for you to say ‘what is “x” and y?’
I think a question that gets 1-word answers is not a well written question.
Your question can be a yes or no but it’ll only generate valuable discussion if you ad “and why”
Maybe
No
Meh.
Affirmative
For my part, I prefer precise answers. If I only ask about a film, I don’t expect to be told what feelings the film triggers in you or what chips are best to nibble with it. If you want to know that, formulate the question accordingly :)
Hmm
Why?