• otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    “Best Of Lemmy” w/ 4 updoots (now 16) and I’m here for it!

    @PugJesus is a gawdamn treasure. 🙇🏼‍♂️🤘🏼

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    1 month ago

    Best

    4 up votes

    (including the person who wrote it and presumably the person who posted this)

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      This is good content for this community. If it was based on upvotes, all we’d see are low effort jokes

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        all we’d see are low effort jokes

        Well, we could take a quick look at PugJesus’ profile to see if it fits the quality/quantity point you’re making…

        6.69K Posts 4.89K Comments Joined 8 months ago

        Almost every post to meme communities they moderate…

        That’s “quality content” for you?

        Or do you think them cranking out ~30 posts and ~20 comments a day, every day, is a bit spammy?

        If you think it’s all that high quality (they do seem to all be lengthy) that’s almost nonstop dedication from that account to continuously post to Lemmy.

        But most people don’t just think “more and longer means better comment”.

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          Oh I’m sorry, I thought we were talking about the comment in the post, not the entirety of the commenter’s posting history. Silly me!

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          And nearly every meme in historymemes comes with additional historical context explaining the joke. You’re dismissing a lot of effort.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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      I posted a 5,808 word treatise loaded with professional photography and graphs the other day and got a grand total of 56 upvotes on it. Meanwhile, about a year back I slapped a zero effort picture of my fat-ass cat parked in front a mini split heater unit and it remains to this very day my top rated Lemmy post of all time. Hell, the literal shitpost I made last week about cramming some of my camera junk into a Harbor Freight case attracted more interest and attention than the former.

      Widespread exposure of content — especially general interest content — that attracts some arbitrary number of up arrows is not indicative of quality, and it sure as shit doesn’t have anything to do with effort. If it did, the Internet would be a very different place.

      In other words: Your boos mean nothing to me. I’ve seen what makes all of you cheer.

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      Huh, it’s almost like the quality of content is not determined by fake internet points.

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      OP really tried and has something nice to say. Try to match their energy. Don’t be low effort and lazy.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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        Don’t be low effort and lazy.

        Do you think what I said was worse then outright personal insults?

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      I’m sorry for you feeling like popularity means quality. It unfortunately doesn’t. Have a nice day.