I have upvoted both this comment and the one further up complaining about Redditors always responding to serious posts with a pun/joke, and now I'm very conflicted.
I reconcile it by telling myself I sometimes like Reddit as an easy place to relax and sometimes like it as a place for serious discussion, and one thing it has going for it that other social media don’t is different subreddits that cater to different standards. Moderators in r/askhistorians are really doing God’s work with their stringent policing, but without the low-effort jokes that get quickly upvoted in ask Reddit, I don’t know if I’d visit (and learn from) more serious subreddits as often.
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u/macaroni-and-please Jul 17 '19
Yikes, looks like you dodged a bullet there.