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Why does nobody talk about the 47% number that made me finally quit posting bad takes on purpose?
Last Tuesday I was scrolling through my own post history and realized 47% of my posts this year were just me repeating other people's bad takes to get likes. I used to think that was fine, like I was doing a public service by showing how dumb some takes are. Then I hit 3,000 karma on one post where I just copied a take from a Facebook group and added 'lol' at the end, and it felt wrong. I sat there in my kitchen in Boise and thought about why I even joined this community in the first place. The whole point is to break down why a take is bad, not to just point and laugh. So now I actually write out the flaws, like I did in my last post about that 'you can't drive a car with a manual transmission in traffic' take. Has anyone else caught themselves just farming reactions instead of actually analyzing the take?
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andrewwilliams2d ago
How long did it take you to notice the pattern though? I feel like most people never even get to that point because the likes keep coming and it feels good. The part that gets me is that bad takes spread faster when you just repeat them, even if your goal is to make fun of them, because the algorithm doesn't know the difference. So you end up helping the exact thing you were trying to dunk on. Breaking it down and explaining why it's wrong actually does something, even if it gets less attention.
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wader712d ago
The "algorithm doesn't know the difference" thing is real but I don't think dunking on a bad take helps it much, at least not the way people say. Feeds care way more about time spent and comments than they do about whether you meant it as a joke. A quick roast is a blip. Some guy writing five paragraphs breaking down why it's dumb is the thing that keeps people arguing in the replies for hours.
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