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this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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Seeing the low-quality comments starting to appear is disappointing.
I think this is a symptom of having a scoring system for comments. If you gamify your social interactions, people will try to play the game (meaning low quality comments, dad jokes, or anything that will grant them easy votes) instead of having actual discourse.
Even back in the old forum days, we had replies akin to "yes, this!" "agreed!" "no" that don't contribute much to the discussion.
So I don't think it's the scoring system that is at fault, but rather it's just human nature. Sometimes people simply want to be a part of something, and those meaningless phrases help to accomplish that.
Oh, definitely. However I'm not so sure that these are the low quality comments they're talking about. I believe it's the ones that are being posted just to get that quick upvote in order to feel more validated.