• reverie@lemmy.world
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        I think it was more an attempt to not flood the sub with one event, because they aggregated the list of topical articles on the megathread and restricted any new submissions on the subject

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        We may not need them here right now, but those megathreads serve a purpose. If it weren’t for those, the entire sub would be flooded with the same news article from 92705278 different sources every time a politician so much as sneezes.

        If this community gets big enough to warrant it, I’d support seeing the same here.

      • Xanthobilly@lemmy.world
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        I think they serve a purpose, which is to focus the numerous posts so the whole community doesn’t get overridden with by topic for the whole day.

        • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.worldOP
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          On Reddit we created those because on thread would give a user 10K posting karma. Users would game the system to do it so megathreads were created to eliminate the karma farming. Lemmy points don’t mean anything and you can only see points on certain apps like Connect for Lemmy.

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        Certainly no love lost here, but I’m not sure I follow the relation of karma and megathreads. I thought they were just a way to keep multiple posts on a particularly hot topic from flooding a sub?

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          I understand the need to prevent major topics from flooding the sub, but at the same time megathreads were kind of lame - especially as new info and reporting arose. I usually browse my subscriptions or All, rather than sticking to a single community. So it’s very easy to miss stuff if it’s only in one thread.

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      Seth Abramson was a writing teacher with an expired Vermont law license and no federal experience who somehow tweeted his way into having everybody take his 7,000-word opinions seriously even after several of them proved to be spectacularly wrong. (perhaps the most impressive of all of the anti-Trump grifters)