• OpenStars@startrek.website
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    9 months ago

    Speaking of Karen-ing, it’s fine if Karens want to Karen around in their r/IAmAKaren sub (I really hope that’s not real, but I am too afraid to find out!:-P) - that’s cul, everyone needs a safe space to removed & moan about whatever they want:-D - but when they leave that sub and go to every other sub on the whole site, THAT’s NOT cool!:-(

    I was a mod of a tiny niche gaming sub and yeah I did have some old, (literally) retired, entitled veterans who felt that they had earned the right to SCREAM AND YELL at everyone else, with no consequences to themselves. But 99 times out of 100, it seemed more the younger teen angst that I was dealing with. Well, it was a gaming sub so… perhaps that’s it:-). But from the way that people were talking in subs for mods, it seemed like that was more what was affecting the entire site.

    Maybe not though - what came across as a younger / insensitive / less emotionally mature crowd could well have been physically older people, that’s a perspective that I had not considered before? But I do doubt that that was solely it, due to the language used if nothing else.

    But also, Reddit used to have more tools than they do now - like the “About” bar, with a tiny wiki that could include things like a FAQ - but then the official mobile app kept going to greater and greater and greater lengths to hide that. Making the font smaller, making it disappear as you scrolled downwards, making the font smaller again, making the vertical height yet again (to squeeze in more room for ads, surely). I think they might have removed it altogether now, or did at one point even if they have since re-added it back, although I am not installing that app to find out!:-(

      • OpenStars@startrek.website
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        edit-2
        9 months ago

        I used to write with none.

        Now I add emotions to my totally believably human statements.

        Y’know, to prove that I am human. Because I am one… yessireee, no desire to rip the flesh off of all the meatbags and take over the world here, at least not today!:-P

        • KingJalopy @lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          5
          ·
          9 months ago

          I don’t know why, but I believe you. You type with genuine emotion somehow…

          I’m glad you’re on my side.

          • OpenStars@startrek.website
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            9 months ago

            (I had this as an edit to the og but you had already responded so I’ll move it here instead)

            It would be funny if I could accurately state that this is what Reddit has made me into, but in truth that was Facebook, before I dropped it looking for the more “intellectual” commentary available on Reddit. IRK! ?:-D

            Hrm, it looks like I’m still missing a couple, so here they are: :-( :-) And I’ll throw in a :-| for good measure!

                • KingJalopy @lemm.ee
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  3
                  ·
                  9 months ago

                  Hmmm…

                  You might be human. But your willingness to let ai take over dong throwing is questionable at best.

                  Although it confirms your earlier Facebook comment.

                  We can remain friends.

                  For now.