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Meta - should we add a new rule to the sidebar prohibiting single word answers? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by aCosmicWave@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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It really grinds my gears when there’s an c/asklemmy question and the top most responses are single word answers.

For example, a question asking for the most mind-bending movie will often have the same few movies upvoted to the top (“The Matrix”, “Inception”, “Finding Nemo 2”, etc).

Those truly might be the most popular mind-bending movies, but what I really want to know is why the person answering the question feels the way that they do. Otherwise these types of questions can become stale very quickly, as can be seen on other platforms.

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[–] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

You're asking for a much more intense "quality control" kind of moderation that is one of the reasons Reddit is sinking. That's asking for a lot more mod actions, which is a lot more time spent moderating, and also results in some degree of subjective application of rules for "quality". Heavy mod workloads and subjective decisions tends to drive good, well-balanced mods away (they have actual lives to lead with less time to mod) and only attracts the shitstains with nothing better to do who mod for their own personal power.

Downvote a comment if it isn't contributory. That's what the button is for (not a "I disagree").

Edit: also many of those one word answers spawn a lot of good discussion underneath them. So they're not always totally worthless

[–] aCosmicWave@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

There's no way to add an automated rule -> if c/asklemmy then comment should have 5 words minimum else don't allow reply?

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 10 points 1 year ago

No no no no no.

[–] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 2 points 1 year ago

There’s not even a way to count words at this juncture never mind anything resembling a rules engine.

[–] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If() comment<5 words;

 Ban user

Else();

Post comment

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

That’s what the button is for (not a “I disagree”).

You know, maybe we just need more than one button.

"Does not contribute to the discussion", "I disagree", "I don't necessarily disagree but this person aligns to a different political ideology and therefore I feel the need to object to their presence in some way"...

[–] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

As long as they answer the OP, they're valid. It's up to others to ask follow up questions, if they want more discussion.