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The decline of pre-modern women warriors, comment by PugJesus (media.piefed.social)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/bestoflemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 21 points 11 months ago

"Best Of Lemmy" w/ 4 updoots (now 16) and I'm here for it!

@PugJesus is a gawdamn treasure. 🙇🏼‍♂️🤘🏼

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    [–] 9 points 11 months ago

    That was a really interesting read!

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    [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    I'm flattered to have the comment posted here! 🙏

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    [+] -9 points 11 months ago (21 children)

    Best

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    4 up votes

    (including the person who wrote it and presumably the person who posted this)

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  • [–] 50 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    This is good content for this community. If it was based on upvotes, all we'd see are low effort jokes

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  • [+] -19 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    all we’d 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".

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  • [–] 39 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    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 — especially general interest content — 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.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I am steadfast in my assertion that your reviews are one of the highlights of my lemmy scrolling. I did miss this one, though. :)

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    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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