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downvoting for disagreement. people on reddit treat upvotes/downvotes as agree/disagree, when they really should be used to promote thoughtful and good content, not necessarily what you agree with. If you think someone is participating in a thread properly, and promoting and inviting discussion and making the place better (even if you disagree with them) you should upvote instead.

reddit all too often let "lazy" comments float to the top because they were agreeable with the masses, but low effort.

stopping hatespeech at the root before it becomes a whole hate community. fascists can fuck off to truth social if they want to be bigots

"This"

Probably impossible to implement but, man, just way less reposting of the same stuff. I'm hoping a system that places less emphasis on "karma" will help?

I doubt the fediverse ecology will be any better (and maybe even worse) at (a) helping people prior content that, e.g., will answer a question they have and (b) have a system that encourages the reviving of prior posts rather then the propagation of the same content as a new post.

creating magazines (and other subreddit analogues) with poor "humour" titles like those "X-masterrace" ones.

"EDIT: Wow, didn't expect this to blow up"
"edit2: hahaha, my most liked post is now about <insert completely harmless topic here>"
"final edit: Thanks for the gold kind stranger :))"

can we stop calling everything porn?

Stop making everything Political

avoiding "self promotion" by posting links to your own blog. we should be moving away from information consolidation. if an instance goes down, you don't want all the quality content on it to disappear as well.

Using voting on a post or comment like a yes/no poll. I think we should rather upvote if the comment is interesting, or related to topic and actually reply if we disagree with comment.

Reply guys dropping in to conversation just to stir up a debate

• "funny" bots
  Like haiku bot, "all words are in alphabetical order", And character bots (think kenobi or vader bots in sw subs) that add nothing of value to the actual discussion.

• reddit sings / ask oija
  Posting song lyrics line by line is kinda fun,
  But it also doesn't add anything of value.

• this is the way / catchphrase spam
  Also void of any actual discussion.
  Just blind repetition.

• negative subs
  This one is probably controversial but, Stuff like gamingcirclejerk, nicegirls/guys, gamingcirclejerk, enoughmuskspam.
  When you actually like the subject you just get the worst parts of it / its community rubbed in your face,
  If you dislike it, its just the worsts part of a thing you hate hilghted daily pissing you off.
  And imo if these subs lack an influx of "natural content", it becomes zealous, seething and unfair.
  Also the peak of irony always was, whenever enoughmuskspam was the only musk related post on r/all

Karma farming.

I feel like I saw alot of shit like "L take", which is kind of pretty mean, and brings zero discourse but breeds lots of anger and frustration.

Seeing many people in favour of removing downvotes (I am not) I am expecting a big split between instances on this issue. Which is good I guess.

@Deliverator

Probably habits will get imported, maybe isn't even such a bad thing, at the end of the day, a reddit alternative is what you want, a reddit alternative is what you will get.

Obviously we should seek towards creating healthier and way less toxic communities anyways.

Somewhat related to modding, but we should discourage "supermods" who attempt to be in control of many subs/mags. Somewhat inevitable as part of the migration but we should let those who can better manage their community have the helm of the mags when the dust settles