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"Best Of Lemmy" w/ 4 updoots (now 16) and I'm here for it!
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this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2025
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My K-12 education was okay (with college certainly being better), but either way information like this was sadly neglected IME. That, and basic facts about how capitalism really works, and the fact that the States have been on vastly shakier ground since day one than the body of Americans remotely realise.
So, kinda fun to learn about this stuff the more I read and think, but also kind of infuriating that it took this much extra effort & awareness. :S
If someone told me there are middle eastern communist women-militias I would not have argued about US army being "biologically too brutal for women" in my highschool days.
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4 up votes
(including the person who wrote it and presumably the person who posted this)
This is good content for this community. If it was based on upvotes, all we'd see are low effort jokes
all weβd see are low effort jokes
Well, we could take a quick look at PugJesus' profile to see if it fits the quality/quantity point you're making....
6.69K Posts 4.89K Comments Joined 8 months ago
Almost every post to meme communities they moderate...
That's "quality content" for you?
Or do you think them cranking out ~30 posts and ~20 comments a day, every day, is a bit spammy?
If you think it's all that high quality (they do seem to all be lengthy) that's almost nonstop dedication from that account to continuously post to Lemmy.
But most people don't just think "more and longer means better comment".
Oh I'm sorry, I thought we were talking about the comment in the post, not the entirety of the commenter's posting history. Silly me!
And nearly every meme in historymemes comes with additional historical context explaining the joke. You're dismissing a lot of effort.
I posted a 5,808 word treatise loaded with professional photography and graphs the other day and got a grand total of 56 upvotes on it. Meanwhile, about a year back I slapped a zero effort picture of my fat-ass cat parked in front a mini split heater unit and it remains to this very day my top rated Lemmy post of all time. Hell, the literal shitpost I made last week about cramming some of my camera junk into a Harbor Freight case attracted more interest and attention than the former.
Widespread exposure of content β especially general interest content β that attracts some arbitrary number of up arrows is not indicative of quality, and it sure as shit doesn't have anything to do with effort. If it did, the Internet would be a very different place.
In other words: Your boos mean nothing to me. I've seen what makes all of you cheer.
I am steadfast in my assertion that your reviews are one of the highlights of my lemmy scrolling. I did miss this one, though. :)
Thanks a bunch! I'm glad I'm making somebody's day, or maybe approximately four people.
Make that five.
Iβve been effusive in my regard for @dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world
This man brings the thunder, and Iβll fight a bitch that claims otherwise.
Just wanted to say that I greatly appreciate your content and upvote each time I see it. Thank you for the fantastically written knife reviews.
This fellow made me buy a knife!
I got the boker mini balisong and you were absolutely right, insanely good quality for 40 bucks. Had to loctite the screws because the handles got sloppy real fast but other than that it's been a treat.
I posted a 5,808 word treatise loaded with professional photography and graphs the other day and got a grand total of 56 upvotes on it.
I really hope you either like the knife a lot, or really enjoyed expressing yourself, which is the goal of art (which writing is).
EDIT: To be clear. the goal of art is expressing yourself, not liking knives a lot.
EDIT2 : Although "liking knives a lot" is probably a form of curation
For sure. The above wasn't a complaint, just my observation on the difference in popularity between niche nerd stuff (58 upvotes) and something that's of widespread general interest (cats).
I don't think any of us are posting on Lemmy of all places to get famous.
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I upvoted your cat. Nice cat.
Huh, it's almost like the quality of content is not determined by fake internet points.
OP really tried and has something nice to say. Try to match their energy. Don't be low effort and lazy.
Donβt be low effort and lazy.
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Do you think what I said was worse then outright personal insults?
I'm sorry for you feeling like popularity means quality. It unfortunately doesn't. Have a nice day.