Most commentators there are playing to the gallery rather than answering the questions. The size of the question subs actually makes it harder to get a good answer.

The best karma return per comment is not to craft a lengthy, thoughtful reply but to fire of a snappy one liner as fast as possible.

What I have written is also not inciteful or original. It has been well know for a long time and is pretty much a factor of sub size and the demographic spread of the user base (which skews young, cis, male and american).

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

This is the crux of it.

I was so unbelievably sick of the rote comments (bAnAnA fOr ScAlE?!?), and edgelord opinions, and half-formed trains of thought that overlook a lot of the nuances of whatever is being discussed.

Lemmy is a lot better by miles.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

* insightful. Unless you actually mean to encourage a mob, in which case, carry on!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Sometimes, a spelling mistake can be strangely insightful.

[–] samus12345 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You're trying to incite insight.

[–] Boozilla 6 points 11 months ago

I love the lack of karma / aggregate points on Lemmy. I hope they never add it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The trick is that people can talk however they like, but they cannot mandate that a particular comment rise to the top of a particular scoring scheme. If commentors and voters would both use discretion based on the magazine they are in... but that is a moot point bc that won't happen either.

Short of something like a separate voting scheme (was this comment (a) popular or (b) insightful? or maybe both types can be up/down-voted independently; but then you could sort by either one or the other), I think it will just continue to happen here, even if less overwhelming than on Reddit, due to both different audiences and scales of population.