This subreddit is pointless, the rule of 4 subreddit says nothing about a chain, it just says any fourth comment is downvoted, look at the subreddit name if you don't believe me, and mods don't remove this post.
The rule of 4 subreddit was created AFTER the rule of 4. Most people who use the rule of 4 probably do not even know about it.
Why would some random reddit mod who happened to create a sub first have any more say in the debate than anyone else?
Just think about how a “rule of four” could have originated. Thousands of people didn’t just suddenly decide to start downvoting the fourth comment: they got annoyed with chain posts of identical comments and started downvoting them at random points. 4 happened to be the most common point for people to choose, so eventually everyone started following the herd and downvoting the fourth identical comment.
It was always a random 4th comment, check out 6-7 year old popular posts on various communities, people may have also get annoyed by people who longated conversations for no reason, this imo is the main reason this phenomenon first occured.
The rule of 4 subreddit was created AFTER the rule of 4. Most people who use the rule of 4 probably do not even know about it.
Why would some random reddit mod who happened to create a sub first have any more say in the debate than anyone else?
Just think about how a “rule of four” could have originated. Thousands of people didn’t just suddenly decide to start downvoting the fourth comment: they got annoyed with chain posts of identical comments and started downvoting them at random points. 4 happened to be the most common point for people to choose, so eventually everyone started following the herd and downvoting the fourth identical comment.
I was gonna write a couple paragraphs basically saying the same points lol
its just a light hearted joke, no need to take rule of 4 so seriously
Yeah it’s just 4th comment bad at the end of the day
I fear my karma
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I don’t care about the rule itself, I just find it funny that people are citing a subreddit rules page as proof of it’s nature lol
I was gonna write a couple paragraphs basically saying the same points lol
It was always a random 4th comment, check out 6-7 year old popular posts on various communities, people may have also get annoyed by people who longated conversations for no reason, this imo is the main reason this phenomenon first occured.
I suggest searching "rule34" for aditional info on this topic
I agree
dont forget the .xxx
(imma go there rn)
bros going to beat his meat
No. There's a version where it isn't the fourth reply in a string it's just the fourth reply and people still downvote it.
Nobody does that outside of this sub
Exactly, on other subs, rule of 4 is only used on strings of karma farming comments
It says in the description that it has to be consecutive, aka a chain. They changed it recently
consecutive and a "chain of comments" are not synonyms consecutive just means 4 comments that come one after another
It used to be consecutive
https://preview.redd.it/npzdulc9dqtf1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f7467b0867e36b0795f3e99b402422acab0113d7
Literally yesterday
they said they changed it recently lol
Recently and earlier today are different
Just bait them into being fourth comment here and downvote them lol
Caring about this either way is genuinely pathetic
and caring enough to leave a comment is even more pathetic.
Yeah ok mr fart
also what compelled you to put a comment on my post saying it's genuinely pathetic is even more genuinely pathetic.
Whuh?
r/ruleof4 Hey, it counts now.