For example, people on Reddit asking redundant questions and give equally redundant or unhelpful answers.

Whenever every ‘What’s the worst show you’ve seen?’ is asked, you’ll get 10,000 “Kardashians” answers, which is just easy karma farming.

If someone posts in a community that’s geared for something like opinions, but someone elects to just go on a full scale rant instead.

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    1 year ago

    Asking why they’re being downvoted when they clearly have more upvotes. Also, starting a comment with “I’m going to get downvoted for this but”.

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      With the first one, there are bots that will try to control the conversation by downvoting one side before people with a brain read the comments.

      Usually, the person asking about the downvotes don’t change their comments after the initial barrage.