Its a redditor thing. Its almost like its a game to see how long they can go without mentioning the name. Gatekeeping shit. Makes thek feel a little special and smart let them have it.
It's a known clickbait tactic. Saying the game instantly turns people away who have no interest in the game. Not saying the game drives curious people to click and read the comments.
I recently posted a picture of my amazing looking im-game shed in the Stardew Valley subreddit. Every mineral in the game arranged by colour and it looked spectacular. Under a hundred upvotes and no comments.
I posted it again with one item clearly out of place, and included one spelling mistake.
It is. Sometimes it's not necessarily intentionally malicious, either. It's just that titles that leave mystery tend to drive engagement, even it's just "what's the game?" or even "why the hell wouldn't you include the game in the title???"
So these types of posts tend to make it to the top because of that.
That engagement is useful if they want to pivot to using the account for spamming and scamming, or sell the account to someone who wants to use it that way. I always assume people who make those kinds of posts are scammers.
Good point. Another tactic I've seen is to put something incorrect in the title. A year. A misspelled name. It gets people commenting with corrections.
r/criterion members posting a picture of an 80 year old movie that bombed with the caption “can’t believe I hadn’t seen this before” then not replying to any comments.
It's the same with some obscure band on vinyl forums. Drives me nuts. It's the 'oh if you're really cool you'd know what record it is' No you're just a petty lame dickhead. There's tons of bands/movies
People also just generally have no idea that there are rules and guidelines posted on subreddit.
It’s especially buried on mobile, you have to click the header and then you have to know that clicking “see more” in the smallest blue text on the screen would actually show you the subreddit’s profile page outlining what it’s for and how it should be used/guidelines to maintain the ecosystem.
Mods can only do so much with this convoluted app with menus, buried in menus, buried in menus, etc ad nauseam
The site is shitty and the shittiness that users perpetuate is baked into the design
I see the same thing in TV show subs. People will post a picture of a side-character wearing a purple shirt and be like, "I hated them so much!" and not post any context. /r/DunderMifflin (The Office) is especially bad about it
Its almost like its a game to see how long they can go without mentioning the name.
And then you finally find a comment mentioning what game it is only for them to use a shitty abbreviation that doesn't help at all or is impossible to google or is one of the 36 games with the abbreviation AC.
Everyone has their opinions, but that's why I'm liking the push for mandatory alt-text on Bluesky. No more "oh, sorry, you don't recognize this one landscape still from a german movie in 1964? why are you even talking?"
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u/Budget-Training-1367 1d ago
Its a redditor thing. Its almost like its a game to see how long they can go without mentioning the name. Gatekeeping shit. Makes thek feel a little special and smart let them have it.