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-16 Post author: PeerGynt 01 June 2016 04:34AM

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Comment author: root 02 June 2016 12:28:27PM 0 points [-]

I appreciate when people tell me why they downvote my posts.

I'm at fault for not saying it so for the sake of honestly, my main problem with these kind of posts is that despite being amusing, they don't add much to the site. After a certain amount they actively harm the site and the quality of the humor would also deteriorate and would also replace possible quality posts. (Oppourtunity cost?)

The reason I've mentioned Reddit in my comment is that Reddit looks nice on paper, but from my experience I've often faced an issue where I'll go to a subreddit, look for the 'top' posts and think there's going to be a bunch of useful stuff in that specific endeavor only to find too many posts that aren't even funny and take up 25% or more of the whole list of things. It feels annoying to spend time that ends up being a wasted effort.