I notice on a lot of mags, there is one or two people posting, and either 0, a handful, or quite a bit of upvotes, but no one is really engaging, most the time there are 0 comments.
I think in order to foster the growth of our community, we must try to engage more with the people generating the content, it’s helpful and encouraging for them, and also a positive sign for people who are coming into the fediverse. I post quite a bit, and comments always make me feel like it was worth it!
Also, keep upvoting! Someone responded to your post or comment, and you’re just grateful for that or agree with them? Upvote them! Engage! That’s all :)
Ok. Sounds good.
Lots of angry folks out here; hard to get people involved when they see the “big contributors” going around brigading with no capacity for recompense, reporting or otherwise. I think we could get things moving a lot faster if we got rid of the downvote altogether; copying the Reddit way of doing things is… not great.
when they see the “big contributors” going around brigading with no capacity for recompense, reporting or otherwise
can you elaborate on this? i don’t quite know what you mean
It’s easy on some instances to click a name, then click the down arrow on everything they’ve ever posted. I have a couple of stalkers that are hounding me in this way currently, and there’s no way to make them stop. That kind of nonsense makes people want to give up and go somewhere else.
That’s one of the reasons I have a kbin account, but use a reddthat account with downvotes disabled. It’s also annoying on reddit to find useful info hidden under downvotes because someone had an alternative way of seeing things, but got bombed into disappearing since they suggested something that wasn’t wrong, just different.
@euphoria That is my observation also. If we want to make Kbin an engaging community it’s incumbent on all of us to comment and post
exactly right! i understand not everyone is a content creator and would rather lurk, but those same people tend to complain about lack of content 👀 even a single post or a single comment from nearly every user would make a world of a difference, it adds up. we have to be the change we want to see
I’m definitely trying to lurk less here compared to when I used to use reddit.
Same here. I starting making an effort to post more…but then ran across a weirdo angry I told him not to be a dick to someone after he told them to “fucking die,” and now they’re downvoting literally everything I post and comment, despite me blocking them.
We can encourage commenting, but we’ve also got to strengthen tools to stop harassment and create a culture that discourages people from being toxic.
im sure @ernest is eventually gonna implement something to prevent going to someone’s page and mass downvoting, like reddit did, it’s been brought up a ton by now
You can’t force this stuff though. No-one wants a ton of vapid, low-effort comments put there just for the sake of it.
i’m certainly not asking for comments for the sake of comments, i am asking for less lurking and more generating. people usually have something to say, add, or discuss, it’s effort-level is subjective. i just want those people to feel encouraged to speak out, its safer to do so here than it was on reddit, and it’s also helpful
I wonder if she was two moves ahead of us the whole time knowing the song itself was ironic, not the situations in the song…
I like to think so, but a lot of intelligent people pick up on the meaning of words from context, and sometimes they get it wrong. I remember reading that Susan Sontag used the word “magma” as if it meant something like “foundation” or “basis”.
@HeartyBeast Yeah this makes sense, I sadly still see upvotes in posts people create asking questions. When the OC tried to ask a question it’s helpful to have an answer but yes not everyone should have to comment as it might not be useful and could clog up the feed.
the thing is, a lot of people wont answer or comment in the first place. maybe they think someone else will, but then that ends up not being the case
