Submitted by Elleasea t3_zzt3eb in television
Just a non-stop parade of: what was the best show? The worst show? Who has the best hair? What was your favorite cartoon? Drama? Commercial?
Are y'all planning on paying people for your focus group research here?
Didn't r/movies recently ban posts like this, though? They're at least making an effort to curb the hollow posts.
https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/zwm24w/due_to_the_recent_influx_of_low_effort_posts_we
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I’ve noticed this on r/futurology too, so many very low effort discussion posts. I had no idea what was causing the spikes. But it doesn’t bode well for online discussion if this is the work of bots/AI accounts. Soon every post must just be low effort spam.
I don't remember any time it being brought up being shut down. I remember the first post I saw about it noting it was some strange reddit algorithm change amplifying text only posts. And as another person mentioned, they are trying to quash it.
I think there just aren't many mods for the amount of trafic these subs have. Or any of the major subs actually.
Maybe there isn't much actual news happening right now with the holidays as well? There also just isn't much new content at the moment, I think things will even back out after the new year.
I'd take those posts over linking a 1+ hour video essay with no editorial comment, or "I just finished watching Very Popular Show, why aren't more people talking about it?"
Better yet, "I just finished watching Very Popular Show From 5 Years Ago, why is it so underrated??"
“I just finished watching Andor on Disney+. Has anyone else watched this underrated masterpiece?”
Yeah not at all a member of Disney's marketing team.
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As a mod mentioned in another sub, Reddit made changes system wide recently to promote more posts that are all text.
This is what is leading to more question posts.
It is definitely a lot recently so I understand the complaints.
Personally. I much prefer the questions to the threads linking to articles that are clearly just an ad, that has always been most of the content I see on here.
To put it another way, I prefer “What is your listicle?” Posts to an actual link to a listicle. At least that way I get multiple lists and I do not have to click an outside website.
I will never understand people negativity towards discussion posts. Would you rather this subreddit was just news articles and announcements?
I don't have a problem with discussion posts. I'm specifically calling out posts that seem very specifically designed (and conveniently timed) to generate content that will regurgitated back us the first week of January in some blog/article and likely shared back on this same subreddit, like the people here didn't write it, for the author, in the first place.
That just seems like a really cynical interpretation to me. It’s the end of the year, naturally people want to reflect on stuff.
Reddit is a pretty cynical place. Sometimes for good reason, but sometimes it gets a little conspiratorial.
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The worst is when those Collider articles with "according to Reddit" literally in the title are posted here again lol. That website is junk
Who cares mate? It's discussion that people like me want to see. Should I be denied the conversation about the best shows of the year because some jackass is going to make an article using that public information?
There's no negativity against discussion posts. It's turning this sub into /askreddit thats the problem. The sub gets populated with low effort posts instead.
I will take it over what this sub was before which was just a shit ton of very obvious ads for the next "amazing" Disney+ show or how some new show is the height of this and that.
What’s a listicle? A frozen list?
Combination of article and list.
Those "top 7 shows that ended with a downer ending!" kind of articles
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The whole point of Reddit is to start discussions. Discussing your favorite X of the year in X sub seems like a no brained conversation to have at this time of the year.
It’s New Year’s Eve today. People are gonna want to look back on the year, it’s not like everyone is in on some conspiracy.
Wow, it's almost like at the end of a year people like to talk with other people about their best and worst of the year.
Crazy.
Unthinkable.
They must be trying to con people into something because there's no natural way people would want to have those conversations.
1883 is the best limited series.
Why did I see this the day I was planning to start writing my Top 25 of 2022 listicle? 😅 Well at least I won't need help with mine I guess.
I don’t see the problem if people are engaging with the posts. If you don’t like those posts, don’t engage with them. Reddit is full of stuff I don’t care about, so I don’t engage with it instead of crapping on other people enjoying themselves.
The problem is when a sub drastically changes content. There is very little news on r/television and r/movies now. It's all boring discussion. So subs that we once enjoyed are now overrun with low effort content and people endlessly circle jerking about the same thing over and over.
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Great_Zarquon t1_j2dq5gj wrote
It's been the same thing in /r/movies for a couple weeks but any mention of it is getting shut down, it's pretty clear that either a) the subs are getting hijacked by people trying to farm content for / test AI accounts or b) the mods decided they have something to gain by opening the floodgates and priotizing quantity over quality. The sudden increase in the number of hollow low-effort engagement bait posts is pretty crazy and there's been no discussion about it.