One issue with Reddit was the extreme even obsesive moderation level. It was totally frustrating to post stuff in some subs, lot of new people just avoid it even experienced users like me.

[–] aeharding@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

On the other hand… there’s a lot of Lemmy threads with flame wars that should really be pruned from the post by mods. The flame wars bring a lot of negativity and noise that takes away from the actual discussion

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yes in most circumstances. It's valuable to let people speak, but not for like 5 comments back and forth.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Lemmy desperately needs a "take it to DMs" policy.

[–] Killer_Tree@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

I respectfully disagree - it's very easy to contract comment threads you have no interest in (at least on my client if I long-press a comment, it hides the comment and all responses), but I sometimes enjoy reading through an actual discussion two or three people have in a comment chain. They may be few and far between, but that's the nature of an open forum.

[–] chitak166@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Why not? After a point, the discussion gets buried under "click here for more."

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not once did I ever get a post in r/showerthoughts past the mods. I eventually stopped trying

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

I got a bunch of posts removed there too, but tbh I kinda get it. 99% have the same repetitive showerthoughts and the whole sub was by design, super low effort, meaning the garbage : quality content ratio was like 500:1 so they had to rely on brutish rules