Milking the deaths of beloved celebrities for fake internet points and people destroying their “F” keys as though someone just died in a video game, like r🤮ddit did with Carrie Fisher, Technoblade, Shinzo Abe, the Queen of England…

It’s just so pathetic and disrespectful.

Strict mods removing most posts that would lead to good discussion, locking threads, etc

A few examples include s*x questions on askreddit

Says sex questions on askreddit were a problem

Doesn’t even write the word sex

Yeah, I don’t think the sex questions were the problem, mate.

i really wish that most threads - such as threads on asklemmy or similar where “serious responses only” by default

coz otherwise all we’ll see is the jokes being upvoted because people like to laugh. but… often you’d either have to read 200 comments to find a proper response, or you’d never find it.

alternatively, you can have a “seriousquestions” and a “askwhatever” community, so everyone is happy

The biggest issue for me is honestly the no life power mods, as you say. The stereotype of the pale, insulin insensitive, multiple mental health issue, living in their mom’s basement, mountain dew enjoyer is there for a reason.

These people are basically the result of kids who grew up on 4chan /r9k/ and decided that they were going to have a job one day.