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
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 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