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ecib  ·  4384 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Reddit Format is Broken

I think the wheel is the closest to perfection I've seen. It gives you the slightest bit of ego stroking feedback you crave (even if you're against it on principle), -then stops. You get 8 votes of approval, and once there, you just have to be content that at least a few people out there found what you have to say valuable (or more likely agreeable, given how we humans tend to operate) and it's now time to let it go. No being the first to race into a serious discussion with a clever pun or meme to reap as many upvofes as humanly possible. I don't mind humor as an honest spontaneous response, but when it gets in the way of discussion as often and severely as it does on Reddit it gets really tiresome.