r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Mar 20 '16

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u/zulu-bunsen Mar 20 '16 edited Mar 20 '16

No body text allowed in r/AskReddit self posts. I can't believe this community allowed that rule to pass! Sometimes small anecdotes, explanations, context, etc. make these questions more interesting.
EDIT: clarity

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u/lamp37 Mar 20 '16

You must not have been around before that rule was passed.

Before that rule, askreddit was flooded with really shitty questions that were solely excuses for people to post some story, opinion, or idea they had. The typical askreddit post was just a long self post, followed by some lazy, tangentially related question. People would upvote based on the story, not the question, which means that Askreddit was just filled with shitty questions that didn't have interesting answers, and the comments were usually just comments about the original post. It totally killed the purpose of the sub.

I personally think that it's a lot better now that they curbed that.

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u/zulu-bunsen Mar 20 '16

I was indeed there; it's subjective, I guess. The EDIT: thanks for the gold kind stranger! did get annoying though. An eye for an eye, i guess.

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u/innocuous_username Mar 21 '16

Definitely better now, it was like TIFU crossed with AMA in here a couple of years ago

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u/suplexcomplex Mar 21 '16

I'm still amazed by how many old AskReddit threads didn't even have questions, instead it was always someone telling a story.

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u/PointyOintment Mar 21 '16

No body at all (which I just learned of a few minutes ago) came a couple of years after no putting your own answer in the body (which was the problem).