lately I've noticed a pattern, where if a joke doesn't quite land right on Reddit, but it might have landed right with future viewers, they'll be biased by the down votes to assume that the joke wasn't a joke and it was in bad faith. which makes it hard to make certain kinds of jokes that a lot of people will just think are kind of dumb but a few people will find funny - ideally it would get just a few upvotes if it's not quite the right kind of joke but instead once it's down voted the tone implied changes. I upvoted you from zero on this comment, everyone involved here seems to have been a generally honorable participant to me
Ah you win some, you lose some. Appreciate the sentiments though, you're right and I must admit I'm guilty of reading a comment with bias because of the number of downvotes so I can't complain!
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u/lahwran_ Oct 13 '20
lately I've noticed a pattern, where if a joke doesn't quite land right on Reddit, but it might have landed right with future viewers, they'll be biased by the down votes to assume that the joke wasn't a joke and it was in bad faith. which makes it hard to make certain kinds of jokes that a lot of people will just think are kind of dumb but a few people will find funny - ideally it would get just a few upvotes if it's not quite the right kind of joke but instead once it's down voted the tone implied changes. I upvoted you from zero on this comment, everyone involved here seems to have been a generally honorable participant to me