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by visakanv 4084 days ago
Yep, the problem with "fast food comedy" is that once you reward it, everybody wants to do it– and then it drives out all the more invested, technical conversations.

We can do the G+ jokes on Reddit. Getting to substance requires a certain rigor and discipline that can seem a little draconian, but makes all the difference.

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>Yep, the problem with "fast food comedy" is that once you reward it, everybody wants to do it

Anyone who has been on reddit for more than five or six years has seen this. It used to be on par with hacker news for discussion. I'm not sure if it has been happening since day one, or if the site reached a critical mass and started going downhill from there. But I definitely saw it happening before the Digg migration.