Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he has received a letter informing him that he is a target of the Justice Department’s investigation into efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election.
I think it was more an attempt to not flood the sub with one event, because they aggregated the list of topical articles on the megathread and restricted any new submissions on the subject
We may not need them here right now, but those megathreads serve a purpose. If it weren’t for those, the entire sub would be flooded with the same news article from 92705278 different sources every time a politician so much as sneezes.
If this community gets big enough to warrant it, I’d support seeing the same here.
I think we will figure out something in the next few months once the modbot testing is complete. It will be better than megathreads and utilize the Fediverse advantages.
Certainly no love lost here, but I’m not sure I follow the relation of karma and megathreads. I thought they were just a way to keep multiple posts on a particularly hot topic from flooding a sub?
I understand the need to prevent major topics from flooding the sub, but at the same time megathreads were kind of lame - especially as new info and reporting arose. I usually browse my subscriptions or All, rather than sticking to a single community. So it’s very easy to miss stuff if it’s only in one thread.
On Reddit we created those because on thread would give a user 10K posting karma. Users would game the system to do it so megathreads were created to eliminate the karma farming. Lemmy points don’t mean anything and you can only see points on certain apps like Connect for Lemmy.
I HATED those threads. Since karma doesn’t matter here no reason to have those.
I think it was more an attempt to not flood the sub with one event, because they aggregated the list of topical articles on the megathread and restricted any new submissions on the subject
We may not need them here right now, but those megathreads serve a purpose. If it weren’t for those, the entire sub would be flooded with the same news article from 92705278 different sources every time a politician so much as sneezes.
If this community gets big enough to warrant it, I’d support seeing the same here.
I think we will figure out something in the next few months once the modbot testing is complete. It will be better than megathreads and utilize the Fediverse advantages.
Thanks for all the work you’re doing over here!
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We are testing the first bot now, it’s in training now learning what to report and what not to report.
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Certainly no love lost here, but I’m not sure I follow the relation of karma and megathreads. I thought they were just a way to keep multiple posts on a particularly hot topic from flooding a sub?
I understand the need to prevent major topics from flooding the sub, but at the same time megathreads were kind of lame - especially as new info and reporting arose. I usually browse my subscriptions or All, rather than sticking to a single community. So it’s very easy to miss stuff if it’s only in one thread.
That’s a fair point!
I think they serve a purpose, which is to focus the numerous posts so the whole community doesn’t get overridden with by topic for the whole day.
On Reddit we created those because on thread would give a user 10K posting karma. Users would game the system to do it so megathreads were created to eliminate the karma farming. Lemmy points don’t mean anything and you can only see points on certain apps like Connect for Lemmy.