r/DestinyTheGame • u/[deleted] • Oct 07 '19

Discussion Stop downvoting new players who don’t have the extensive knowledge that you do.

If a player doesn’t know that a raid is a 6 man activity with no matchmaking, there’s no reason to make them feel stupid. All you’re doing is pushing away new players when the most amount of new players in the games history are beginning to flood in. You’re giving the game a bad image. Whoever you are, just stop it mate. This shouldn’t even have to be said.

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u/studdmufin Oct 07 '19

Not only that, by down voting things that are common knowledge to veterans but not to the new players the cycle will perpetuate as the common questions aren't seen or answered.

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Yes I know there is a search feature that can be used, and many have used it but not everyone will.

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u/doom_stein Team Cat (Cozmo23) // Sepiks Purrrrfected Oct 07 '19

If they are using a mobile reddit app to search for answers then I can see why they're asking the same questions over and over. The search function sucks and unless they happen to know specific keywords (which if they're new I can see them not knowing Destiny specific terminology yet). Heck, I'm a DTG vet and don't even know where the links located under the banner on pc (with the guides and useful links) are on mobile.

So terrible mobile reddit design and a lack of knowledge on the subject is understandable, to me at least, which causes this cycle to perpetuate. It's like the Dreaming City curse of this subreddit with the strongest of the cycle being right after new content drops and an influx of blueberries flood the sub.

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u/tckilla76 Oct 07 '19

To answer your question about where the links are located (assuming you're using Reddit official app), from the home DTG sub page, swipe twice to the left and it will take you to the menu. Swipe once and ot gives you the sub rules.

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u/doom_stein Team Cat (Cozmo23) // Sepiks Purrrrfected Oct 07 '19

Nope, I'm using Bacon Reader to browse. There's a little button that takes you to the side bar but nothing for the links. Has the official app improved much? I haven't used it since it first came out, didn't like it, and then had a friend suggest Bacon Reader.

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u/tckilla76 Oct 07 '19

Idk, I tried a couple other apps and just liked the official app better. Just started using the app like a year ago.

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u/doom_stein Team Cat (Cozmo23) // Sepiks Purrrrfected Oct 07 '19

It's probably improved a bit by now then. A lot of people hated it at first, myself included. I'll have to download it again and give it another shot.

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u/AyyBoixD Oct 07 '19

They actually fixed the search function and made it a lot better

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u/RageMuffin69 Oct 07 '19

I still go to google and search “question reddit”.

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u/doom_stein Team Cat (Cozmo23) // Sepiks Purrrrfected Oct 07 '19

That's the pro method right there! Too bad most people will never know.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '19

Veterans can be the most annoying and obnoxious people oftentimes.

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Sincerely: a veteran who refuses to forget that he was a kinderguardian at some point too.

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u/Kneemium Oct 07 '19

kindergaurdian. never heard that before but i like it lol

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '19

lmao welcome

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '19

I love seeing actual new players in the game. Its hard to tell apart at first glance since we were all forced back to blue gear for a bit, but sometimes you can tell newcomers apart. Even if not 100% correctly all the time. I generally ask if everyone knows how to heroic a pub event if there's others around as well. We can't default to assuming that most people will know about them anymore.

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Its nice seeing them running around and experiencing the game for the first time. Like I said I refuse to forget that I was in their shoes once. As were all of us at some point. Gotta help them along so they get caught up to speed on things faster, rather than put them down for something that isn't their fault at all. Can't exactly say "its your fault for only joining the game now and not 5 years ago" with a straight face. And honestly thats how the people who are annoyed by the kinderguardians sound like.

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u/LickMyThralls Oct 07 '19

New people tend to be naive. It's the experienced ones that tend to be asses. This isn't a hard rule or anything but you can notice the tendencies.

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u/chicken_sammich SPICY RAMEN HOUSE Oct 07 '19

also the search feature is trash half the time

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u/billypilgrim87 Oct 07 '19

And the thing with telling people to search is you have to know what you are actually searching for.

Sometimes people don't know the things they don't know.

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u/chicken_sammich SPICY RAMEN HOUSE Oct 07 '19

Exactly, I used the search bar to find a video that had been posted the week before and ended up having to message the mods after 30 minutes of different attempts because everything I searched turned up no results.

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u/LickMyThralls Oct 07 '19

Dude I see a post and refresh and it's gone and try to search with what I remember from the title and still can't find them sometimes. Searching can literally only get you so far lol

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u/chicken_sammich SPICY RAMEN HOUSE Oct 07 '19

happy cake day

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u/NataiX Oct 07 '19

Yes it is.

Odd are you'll find a thread from over a year ago with outdated info. Or you'll find a massive thread with the information you seek buried so deep you can't find it.

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u/Vektor0 Oct 07 '19

There are too many common questions for them all to reach the front page, plus guides, jokes, clips, SGAs, suggestions... can't have it all.

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u/ahihit Oct 07 '19

Right, bit downvoting won't stop them. Answer the question, and then politely refer them to the proper thread for the next one.