It totally bothers me. I’m with you, I think it’s more an issue of the platforms they’ve grown on then the community itself. Clearly the community, outside of those platforms seems really cool. But those platforms have grown to be terrible before, and have no doubt influenced the culture and what’s acceptable behavior - or rather not moderated behavior. For example, I never used to go on reddit before this hobby, and still actively try to avoid it. It will take a lot of effort to combat that. That’s almost like trying to calm down twitter. What can you do?
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Thank you, everyone. It definitely seems like I found the right place.
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We’re glad to have you! It’s always nice to see new people around here 
And nice username btw 
I think part of the problem is that reddit just isn’t meant to be a discussion platform like Discourse is, and part that the ratio of people asking questions to the people answering them is abysmally high. I used to constantly go through the “ask any question” daily threads on r/mk to help people and it was always about a dozen people answering hundreds of questions, and reddit as a platform just makes that problem worse. You get compassion fatigue after doing that for a while, and some people handle that very poorly.
Thankfully everything floats to the top at keebtalk, and we have a disproportionate amount of experienced people, so it’s much less of a problem here 
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“And nice username btw”
Seems like the forest is healthy here. 
I guess my first stupid question is how to blockquote on mobile. What’s the opening and closing text for the command here?
And I’m not here to whine, but for the curious, yes reddit. Yes dm’s. I’m way past the point in my life where I care beyond being unwilling to waste my time with it.
Just highlight the text you want to quote and there will be a little popup that will fill out all the syntax for you.
You can also start any paragraph in your post with a right angle bracket, >. For example: > my post message… you’ll see in your post preview, it will render as quote.
You can highlight text within your post while editing and click the “quote marks” icon in the tool bar too. That will make the text block a quote.
And if you haven’t already, this forum has a tutorial bot that will show you how do all sorts of things in here. Look in your DMs, and you should see it. Hope that helps!
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To elaborate on this: probably the most straightforward way to learn formatting here with a background in programming is just for me to say “Markdown is supported” and point you to a Markdown guide. If you still have questions about formatting we’re obviously happy to answer them, but I know I personally love to have a searchable reference to look over.
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Brilliant! Wish I’d thought of that. Great suggestion!
There’s also the tutorial from @keebot which I think new users should get a PM from when you sign up. If not, send it a message with @keebot start new user. And if you really want to get into what you can do with Discourse, send a message to it with @keebot start advanced user for the slightly more hidden tutorial.
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Hi! To find out what I can do, say @keebot display help.
I feel like a lot of reddit’s problems are:
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The forced daily / weekly question threads, that the subreddits have adopted. So much info, that’s not searchable, because it’s tucked away in a thread, that won’t come up when you search, because it’s title is irrelevant, to the criteria, that your searching for, which leads to the same question, getting asked day in, day out.
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The growing silver spoonism.
I came a cross a thread, where some one wanted to share their new keyboard (I think it was a Topre board of some kind.), with the r/mk community and they were actively getting shunned, because the case was plastic… 
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I also think the larger the platform is the more you’ll see negative behavior because of increased anonymity with the sheer number of people. This forum seems to be smaller, so there’s a familiarity with each other and better social interactions as a result.
Welcome aboard here, ask away, and don’t take anything too seriously. We’re all here for fun and knowledge sharing.
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Markdown is supported
Exactly what I needed. Thanks!
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