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apotheotic ,

Looking at your post history, you make a tonne of posts but don’t engage with the comments seemingly at all. That isn’t in the spirit of this sort of platform.

Admetus ,

Half your posts are specific questions to a specific game which could be answered by searching Google. Such posts do not promote open discussion.

And you might need to check your spelling a bit.

If you had a post like ‘I really love Red Dead Redemption 2 (note spelling is correct here) for (insert mission here)’, other Lemmy users might chime in with their own favourites.

So you need to curate your posts a bit. Maybe stick to commenting for the time being.

Sundial ,

I don’t think it’s fair to OP to criticize their spelling. English may not be their first language. Even if it was, we shouldn’t penalize people for making innocent mistakes.

Admetus ,

I understand your concern. I wouldn’t be criticising their spelling in the main body of the post, but at the very least they should be spell checking the title. An occasional typo is usually forgiving but if the Lemmy feed is showing a post with many spelling mistakes it’s not going to go down well.

Learning spelling and ensuring it is correct is part of learning a language.

If I was posting in a Chinese forum, I would be very careful to ensure the Chinese characters are correct. Differences in minor radicals can make all the difference, e.g. 慢 and 漫 are distinctively different words. It’s a different kind of spell checking.

Sundial ,

I’ll admit I didn’t go through that many of OPs posts when I made my original comment to you so I took a closer look. It looks like OPs titles suffer from bad grammar more than bad spelling. The only real spelling mistakes I found was “redemtion” on a few of OPs posts which can be excusable if you’re just spelling it how it sounds. I 100% agree with you people should do their best to proofread their posts, especially titles. I just don’t feel it’s justification enough to downvote someone.

corsicanguppy ,

English may not be their first language.

Right. If and when I post in French or Spanish or Gaelic on a sub that is more than a language practice, though - in consideration of the reader - I’ll have my stuff checked. It’ll be by an AI, so there’s the hallucination risk, but at least I’ll have it checked. Even grammarly is a train wreck for non-american English, but it’s good for catching the really bad mistakes in English and maybe others.

I don’t see where someone’s criticizing for writing in a second language. I see where someone is expressing worry about content posted without getting it checked. Do we not want our questions to be read? Do we not want to make it as easy to get an answer as possible?

Remember when we used to see this?

  1. Search first, ask later. On most forums, there are certain questions that come up again and again. …
  2. Choose wisely. There are many, many forums out there. …
  3. Breathe. …
  4. Write like you made it through grade school. …
  5. Be complete, but concise. … 6.Proofread, then proofread again. …
  6. Ask politely
dianyxx ,

Because this is not Reddit where regurgitated, repetitive garbage is reposted ad-nauseum. If you're going to say "Reddit is more forgiving...wah" then here's an idea - GO BACK TO REDDIT AND STAY THERE!

MagisterSieran ,

People have tried to explain it to you, but you just lash out at them…

davel ,
@davel@lemmy.ml avatar

Why do people not read the community rules before posting?

  1. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Cadeillac ,
@Cadeillac@lemmy.world avatar

This is literally the second time they’ve been told to read that specific rule in this exact sub

Sundial ,

Put a bit more effort in your posts. It’s nice that you’re actually posting and asking questions to engage the community. I just think you need to work on making your posts not seem low effort. For example, in your post about a game you like or comparing games try writing some talking points that would engage people. Opinions you have. Lists of things you like and dislike. Things like that.

When you just have a bunch of low effort posts it makes it look like you’re some kind of online troll building a presence to make you seem more authentic.

Cadeillac ,
@Cadeillac@lemmy.world avatar

They don’t even engage in the comments. They don’t want engagement. They purely want attention. Quit feeding them

lukecooperatus ,
@lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml avatar

I looked at the comments on a few of your posts, and people are telling you exactly why they are annoyed by them.

Your posts come off as low effort spam, almost like you’re treating Lemmy communities like a Discord chat room. Also, you post very similar kinds of things about the same couple of games on the daily, and people probably get tired of seeing samey stuff in their feed.

I’ve noticed that you’re making hyper specific posts (“what do you think about X mission in rdr”) in a general gaming community. Try posting those hyper specific questions in the communities for the actual game you’re asking about, where people who want to nerd out about some random mission are more likely to be.

It’s cool that you’re trying to engage people though, I think you just need to get some more practice at reading the crowd here. Lurk more, maybe. Lemmy isn’t the other site, we don’t necessarily resonate with all the same kinds of content here.

Aatube ,

Try posting those hyper specific questions in the communities for the actual game you're asking about

communities

that would be impossible

lukecooperatus ,
@lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml avatar

Why is that impossible? Create the post in !reddeadredemption, or !gta6 or !fortnite (those are the games OP keeps harping on) or whatever game they’re interested in.

I guess if there’s no existing community, that’s an issue. Create one, then. Post the hyper-specific question into that new community, and then go post an announcement of the community in the broader games communities and let people interested naturally filter in.

I’m not a Lemmy expert by any means, I’m just suggesting ways to engage with people that seems to me like it’d be more constructive and likely to be appreciated. 🤷

Cadeillac ,
@Cadeillac@lemmy.world avatar

They aren’t engaging people, that is one of my biggest issues

Vendetta9076 ,
@Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works avatar

this isnt a human. its a bot trying to farm engagement.

Aatube ,
  1. People usually prefer a conversation starter to have a lot of details about the starter's personal stance so far.
  2. You should probably engage more with the comments.
EndOfLine ,

If these posts are made in a relatively short time then it could appear as spam. I browsing New is my default and, on a couple of occasions, I have blocked a user simply for being too active and flooding my feed.

200ok ,

I, too, sort by “New” and found/commented on the newer duplicate of this post: https://lemmy.ca/post/28264641

It’s been deleted, probably because it was down-voted to oblivion.

Ironically, I had suggested waiting before posting to a different community. And only if the OC didn’t get enough traction.

xmunk ,

I don’t know why someone would get mad at you but I personally dislike multiple posts on the same topic because it dilutes and confuses discussion.

Mistakes certainly happen though.

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