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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    Going to a sub of strictly like minded people and posting popular opinions for karma.

    “Thanks for the gold” and other “Edit: this blew up” type bullshit.

    Any time someone says “obligatory [anything]” I want to scream.

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      That’s the fate of, ironically, a subreddit called UNPOPULARopinions.

      “Beyonce is overrated!” - just throw them the lifetime achievement award for “unpopular”. /s

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        Because of user karma. Even a fake incentive to say things that everyone likes beyond normal social pressure creates a bunch of people who eagerly say inane shit to get moar doots.

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        I used to use /s all the time over at Reddit - especially in political discussions. If I posted sarcastically “advocating” for something, I didn’t want people to misread the post and think I seriously supported that thing.

        Normally, I could trust that people would pick up on the sarcasm, but it’s hard over text and there were people actually advocating for the horrible stuff. I didn’t want to be mistaken for one of them, so I’d add a /s. It definitely ruined the joke, but I’d rather do that than have someone think I was racist/sexist/bigoted/etc.

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          Sometimes the /s is necessary. It’s difficult to convey sarcasm in writing.

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          It’s one of the thing I don’t miss. Using it the “correct way” is supposed to hurt your eyes. /s for the people who don’t get it.

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        Think of it like this. When humans talk to humans, is any joke ever obligatory? It’s “that’s what she said” any time anything vaguely prurient gets mentioned.

        Now imagine if they said “I’m obligated to tell you that’s what she said.” Do you see how they’ve added a tragic undercut to a comment that already wasn’t funny?

        People should not do this.