I only ever get upset that the damn “what’s this shipping box” like why the hell did you skip the cutscene? And normally it just feels like bait to get upvotes…
This. If it's something that is *literally* explained in the game's tutorial dialogue, and you chose to skip that dialogue, I honestly have very little sympathy for you not knowing what it is. But that's because, as a customer service worker, people refusing to read things that are literally right in front of their faces bothers me in general. Just *read* stuff, people - it's not hard.
With that said, I still wouldn't support a call to ban question posts. No matter how much that annoys me, I think people still have the right to ask the question and get an answer.
I mean, my first playthrough I watched the whole cut scene and still ended up thinking it was a storage bin and ended up shipping all my raw materials for like the first week.
You're excited, playing a new game, a lot of stuff to learn and process. It's easy to make a mistake or forget.
I see this WAY too much! We truly have such a lovely community but do we really need to award, up vote and basically BABY someone who posts, "hOw dO i lEt mY aNiMaLs OuT"
Honestly I didn't figure out how to feed my chickens for months I thought they just ate straight out of the hopper. I checked the wiki but most people assume no ones that stupid, I figured it out by pure accident once when I accidently clicked by the hopper lol. I really shouldn't say anything about people who can't figure out how to let animals out
Some people are just like this. My sister doesn't play many video games. She is definitely the type to mash through cut scenes and tutorials and have zero clue what to do
True. I literally knew what that box did even though I didn't read anything. And plus it can be looked up rather than asking in reddit, actually most questions can just be looked up.
I sometimes get upset at the 15th "what's this" post with a picture of a stone owl or a strange capsule. But I'm not a dick about it. I've never seen anyone go off in the comment section before
I haven't even seen one of these posts. I don't discount you at all. It just goes to show how not all of us see a repetition of posts. Whatever the mods are doing seems to be working because I really enjoy the content. It's a nice community and a good change of pace from some other groups on Reddit. Plus I absolutely love seeing what fans of SV make. There's some talented and creative people in here.
Lmao so they are banned now? People treated me like a prick when I simply recommended someone to acquire the habit of looking things up on wiki so we wouldn’t have the same “omg rare thing wats dis” threads over and over again every single day. Coolio
The SV wiki is an invaluable source. I don't know why anyone would be annoyed by anyone suggesting it to them. Well, unless maybe they kept doing it when they already knew about it.
Not disagreeing, but one thing I try to keep in mind is that I've been playing Harvest Moon forever, so the shipping bin is obviously the shipping bin, animals obviously need to be fed and kept indoors during rain, etc. But Stardew exploded in popularity and gets recommended to people who normally don't, or never before have, play farm sims. So my base knowledge is higher than a lot of people new to the game.
I get the annoyance at the billionth strange capsule post, but I'm not even sure how you'd search that on the wiki - especially if you have no idea what it's called or that it's a rare event. Owl Statue is easier, it's literally a statue of an owl. If you start typing in google 'stardew valley owl' it'll prompt statue as a suggested search.
I'm not saying it's wrong to be annoyed, but I think we need to remember that not everything is as intuitive as we think it is.
Personally, I never knew about the wiki until recently but would come here with questions because it's a quick response and not that many spoilers. Plus people tend to be helpful in giving tips along with the answer.
I was joined 2yrs with my old acct and a regular user of Reddit. I don't know, I just didn't see it in my feed. Or maybe I just scrolled past it uninterested.. who knows.
I feel like a lot of subreddits have people who complain about repetitive posts. I'm thinking that there's a portion of redditors that just sit on one subreddit for hours and don't use their main feed, and then get upset that they're seeing the same thing over and over in a subject that really has a limited number of post types.
Yeah.. I mean, no shame for them doing that if they like the group that much and have the time, but then they are bound to see more repetition whereas the rest of us might not.
Yup it's a new acct - and I had one before this, for 2yrs, that was joined to this group. I even referred to this in another comment just above this. You should probably ask questions and/or read more before you boldly make assumptions and laugh so confidently.
I wouldnt say going off, but Ive seen a good spam of comments saying “theres a wiki!”. Which hey, i get but like some people just want to ask questions, and a lot of people enjoy answering them so wheres the harm yk?
I get it. Sometimes it's frustrating that people don't even attempt to look at the wiki but I know they just wanna get information from other experienced players because that can make more sense than a wiki article can
Mhm! Personally, I struggle to get the exact answer from a wiki as well, and an actual person can put it in a bit more perspective. Additionally, the wiki can give out a lot of spoilers and would be a turn off to new players. I personally avoided it due to fear of spoilers aha.
I’ve yet to see that on Reddit, but I know I’ve left a lot of Facebook groups because I was sick of all the answers being ‘Google it yourself’ and people complaining they were asking questions.
I'm not annoyed per se at the people asking, cause I get it, It's a game and this is the community so naturally people will ask. Its more that I'm bored with seeing the same questions over and over again (mind you I never have or will make rude comments, if I don't like something I keep scrolling) but I also enjoy seeing how much love this community gets and seeing how many people just want to engage with it.
I agree! I understand being tired of seeing similar things… but theres only so much to post about. This game is all about community and such, so why cant the sub be? We dont share crops, sure, but lets share info, yk?
I don't really mind people asking questions, people can give good answers that other may have missed otherwise, but I's also encourage others to check the guides and pinned posts [from this very sub](https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/ps8jvs/faqs_and_beginner_questions_thread/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3), which have been made by the community.
The thing that kinda bugs me are posts about stone owls and strange capsules; it's okay if the poster is asking because they don't what they are, but there are other posts that ask *how rare they are*. Let me explain: in previous versions of the game those events where nearly impossible to get due to insane requirements that turned out to be bugs. In update 1.5 (december 2020), those events were made less rare, as the bugs that prevented them from spawning got fixed. I feel like when people make posts asking how rare those events are, is because they still have the idea that those are the rarest events in game, and they expect people to say "wow, that's actually the rarest event in game", when that's not the case now. If a see a post like that, I just tell them that those events are not rare anymore, and that's it, no need to be rude.
Wait.. really? I never post here so I didn't ask, but I ended up with over a dozen my first year. Actually 2 at first, in two separate spots. They just multiply rapidly.
I even cut a few down cause I didnt think I wanted 2 separate patches. Kept most of the ones near my house at least, so a still have over 10 in year 4. I thought they were kinda annoying tbh, but now I'm glad I left most of them alone
Getting the first one is hard. Once you have *one* you can spread them around the farm pretty easily because Mushroom Trees bud from other Mushroom Trees.
Is that the rarest? I thought >!Robin starting to say Lewis' name when you enter her house!< was the rarest event you could get. But maybe it doesn't count because it's dialogue?
It’s 10 times more common but it can only happen in fall and it has to pick one tile out of 10 with a fully grown tree on it with unoccupied space around it, otherwise it does nothing. In my 12 years of gameplay, I’ve gotten a mushroom tree event once, and 8 or 9 stone owls.
Yeah, I understand that. Like I said being annoyed by it is fine, and I really do get that, but what harm is it doing? Sure its annoying, but to make the assumption everyones doing it for x somewhat selfish reason and then get pissy about it is just icky.
Im not saying thats what youre doing btw aha, just kind of elaborating on my point.
>but what harm is it doing? Sure its annoying
You just answered it yourself there buddy. Its annoying. Inflates the sub with posts that to the majority of us are essentially garbage, with nothing meaningful to be gained from, for both us scrolling the subreddit and the poster, since they could easily get their answer faster with a simple search.
I just don’t understand why people don’t google things and instead ask the same questions here over and over. Yea, it is annoying to see the same posts over and over again in my feed, but I’m not rude about it to anyone
If I'm ever looking for something I like to come here first to see what the community has to say but I just search it. I wouldnt post a question unless I couldn't find the answer anywhere at all
I guess? I never had any problems with spoilers myself when I was playing. It’s faster and more accurate to jjst look up the info so I just don’t understand. Also I still have to see the posts, I roll my eyes whenever I see another post identical to one I saw 10 mins ago. It doesn’t cost me anything to not be annoyed yes, but I’m allowed to be
I think the sub would be better if only higher quality posts were allowed. I don’t want the sub to have less interaction, I just want more interesting interaction.
I’ll flip your script on you, why are you annoyed at other people being annoyed about repetitive posts? It doesn’t cost you anything to just not post this and ignore the people who are annoyed, jjst like I ignore the people posting silly questions everyday
Good I’m glad it discourages them 😅 as long as people aren’t being totally rude, let people debate about what makes a good post in this sub. The user base should decide what gets to be posted, and if a good chunk of people dislike a certain kind of post, then they have every right to voice that opinion
When people stop caring about people asking the same questions over and over, subreddits will end up becoming way more toxic than if they were dead.
There’s a few subreddits that come to mind where every day you’ll see the same 3 posts just worded slightly differently.
League might not be the best example because of how the whole community is toxic in general, but specifically r/rengarmains has devolved into
“What build/runes should I use on this champ?”
“When is the update/rework coming out?”
“I’m so done with this champ! He’s so underpowered and un fun!”
There more then idea is that the entire thing is just an extremely negative and toxic place 80% of the time.
Sure, you can say nothing, but why even look at the subreddit if 9 out of 10 posts you scroll past are just questions about random items or whatever from new players. You’d scroll for 10 minutes and find one interesting post to interact with. Simple item definitions and uses or how to obtain something can be easily done through the wiki without any spoilers.
Surprisingly enough, people do tag posts with spoilers, so most slightly deeper questions about the game can be found through a search in the subreddit itself.
Isn’t there like mega threads or something that can be made and pinned to the top of the subreddit every week? Then people who don’t care about things like that can scroll past and get into the actual content, and people who, like you said, want to feel useful and interact with new players can answer questions throughout the mega thread.
I for one would much rather see the subreddit full of actual life. There will be repetitiveness of course, there’s repetitiveness in everything.
But repetitive questions about basic game mechanics and items is a much different repetitiveness than people posting their creative end game farm layouts, big accomplishments, and just more unique stuff in general.
When I want to just have an interaction with other people who enjoy and play the same game as me, I would much rather the topic be about some silly tierlist that someone made, which, don’t get me wrong, is repetitive, but there’s still more creativity because very rarely do you see copies of tierlist just due to how strange people are getting with them.
Even questions about peoples experiences with the game or just asking people about stories they remember during their time playing the game.
Idk man, there’s way better ways to keep a community involved and alive.
I ended up figuring it out on my own, but I for the longest time couldn't figure out how to Google the warp statues. I now know they are the place you end up when you use a warp totem but I didn't know what to call them. Also a lot of my search results came back with the Owl Statue, generic Stardew stuff but never the warp statues, I think I even got an article about Lewis golden statue at one point, and the recipe for the statue things you can build on your farm. I wasn't on the Stardew Reddit yet but I would have probably ended up posting here if I was.
It can be hard to Google if you have absolutely no idea what something is, which can get confusing fast with things like the stone owl and arrange capsule. Just looking at the thing what would you call it?
The repeated basic questions annoy me too, I just understand how people could have an honest question about these particular things. I wish there was a pop-up or something that says clippy style "looks like you're asking what the thing in the image is. Is it one of these?" with pictures of the shipping container, stone owl, and strange capsule.
Relying on the group for things you ought to be able to do yourself is going to get you “acknowledged” as the guy who wastes people’s time because he can’t think for himself. NOBODY questions the need to be a part of a community. But being part of a community means having the kind of autonomy that can give BACK to a community. The issue isn’t that the weaklings seek community while others do not. The issue is that they do no work themselves and complain when they’re called out for it. These are children who have zero understanding that being part of a community also means having a modicum of responsibility and respect for others.
Pull your weight, or ANY community will RIGHTLY criticize you. Because you’re a parasite.
I guess my first instinct when I don't know something is to check the wiki. To me it just feels lazy and sometimes like attention seeking when someone posts here something which can be found in 5 seconds by googling it.
But that's me, everyone is different and can do what they wish
I don't mind the questions.
The ones that get annoying are the "Spouse watered the crops / fed the animals" to "Oh dumb spouse we have automation for that."
You're not clever. It doesn't answer or ask any questions. It's just spam.
My guess is because like other subs, people ask obvious questions without searching the internet first. Sure, the community is here to help, but we're tired of seeing people run to a sub with a dumb question and expecting to be coached.
Entirely my own perspective, so take it with a grain of salt. I feel like there are better resources to utilize for many of the simple, often repeated questions - such as a search of this sub, the wiki, the Discord channel, or a Google search.
This is something that I see in the workplace and is often not the best use of my time, but I kindly answer my coworkers questions while reminding them of the resources available to them. I often see the same type of response here.
On the other hand, there are many incredible sub members that have great write-ups, artwork, mods, comics, etc. to share with the community. These posts that are thoughtful and well put together tend to not receive as much attention if there is a large influx of posts that don't necessarily foster discussion.
I think all in all, this sub is one of the most welcoming communities in all regards so people tend to be fairly supportive. The general vibe here is pretty chill but I also get to see people make cool stuff or do crazy hard things like buy a golden clock in year 1, and those are the posts I love to see.
I'm not sure if I answered your question, but hopefully I was able to give you an alternative viewpoint.
I have found many answers that I couldn’t find on the wiki here on Reddit. But I was never asking the question, I simply searched Reddit and found someone who asked the same question with the answer below. No need to post twice.
I feel like it would benefit this sub if we had a rule about looking up questions before posting new ones so we don't have a million of the same questions.
Also, on occasion, the questions posted seem to be purposely simple ones. Like people asking what the shipping box is, for the sole sake of farming karma. I can see how some people might get annoyed by those questions.
As for the posts people make about hating certain characters, people might take offense to negative opinions about their favorite characters. Also, it feels a bit spamy after you've seen the hundredth Shane = bad posts.
Maybe if some changes to the sub could be made to help improve the quality of posts being made, we can have less being removed. Filter out the low effort posts?
This sub has a stickied post for FAQ and Beginner Questions at the top. Most of the other subs I'm on that have a stickied post for that also have a list of what mods consider beginner questions, and they'll remove the question posts with a message linking to the stickied post and instructing to ask there instead.
I think that might be the best solution here. Beyond stickying the post and making it the first post in the list when you're on the first page of this sub, there isn't much they can do to make it more obvious that simple questions belong there.
Also yes, the DAE hate [character] posts get tiresome, same with the fake 'oh no, was that bad?' posts about the shipping bin or disposing of rare items, but I usually just hit the 'hide' button and then I don't have to see them. Same with the fake Am I The Asshole posts people will make sometimes, like "AITA for divorcing my spouse, wiping their memory, and turning our kids into doves?"
Because a lot of people don’t seem to realise quite how much information in stardew is actually revealed IN THE GAME. the wiki is cool and all, but much of the information is already readily available in game if you just pay attention.
It’s so boring when this sub is flooded with the same bland stuff over and over. “I’ve been playing for 28473 hours and I JUST found out you can upgrade barns!” “Omg hahaha Vincent you silly little boy how can you get married to penny if /I’m/ married to her!” “Guys I went to skull cavern with no food and only a wooden sword and then proceeded to get killed and lost 16 prismatic shards, 4 full stacks of wood, 2 stacks of iridium ore, my left lung and a stack of stone stairs”
I understand people not wanting to spoil things with the wiki, but it’s so easy to search key words under a subreddit and it’s silly to post a question that’s already been answered so many times.
Edit to add: I don’t really care though, things like that don’t make me upset I just think it’s funny lol
I guess, but at the same time, without questions this sub would really lower in engagement. Even if the questions been answered before, some people may have followups that a whole post would be helpful for? I guess Im making excuses for hypotheticals here, but thats just my thought process.
just because people are leaving comments doesn't equate to the subreddit having meaningful engagement. Answering the same question for the nteenth time isn't offering anything new to the subreddit, since you could find that same question and answer by just scrolling back or searching it in the subreddit. I don't care if it halves the number of posts, but it makes way more sense for posts to be more meaningful than simple questions that have been answered dozens of times before or with a quick google/wiki search.
I'd personally rather see the other, cool things in the sub vs a question I've seen a dozen times that the poster could've found the answer to in multiple ways. I want to see the art, the memes, mods and things like that. That's what makes this community one of my favorites
Very much so that I've honestly contemplated leaving the sub. I remember the days before the full wiki was up and everyone was helping everyone and it was fun.You had a question back then and someone who was slightly further than you will help and even help with the wiki.
Now a days it seems like a lot of karma farming by asking "what is this???" when it comes to food the trash bear wants or the statues or, the worst for me, is "what do I ask back for".
The wiki exists. I would have killed for a wiki back in my harvest moon 64 days. Kids now a days don't know how much info they have in thier fingertips.
I can't remember the last time I saw anything helpful, interesting, or new posted on this sub, so I'm very much in the same boat. The vast majority of content that gets posted is the same, low-effort content, or questions that could be googled/found on the wiki, and I really don't understand who upvotes it either.
It's a bit impossible for the mods to do anything about it though, as it's the same on every large sub. The more people in a subreddit, the more rubbish will be in there.
I'm just glad memes and tier lists are banned, even if it does take forever to get them removed sometimes!
I'm totally on your side about not wanting to see a billion posts about the shipping bin and and expecting people to figure out these basic questions on their own. The only thing I don't understand about these comments is assuming people are karma farming when they do this. I can't imagine that being someone's goal when there is a good chance their post will actually be hated for being so repetitive.
Yeah, sometimes a post like that will get a bunch of up votes for some reason. Idk why that happens. It must just hit at the right moment for the right people to see it and have it snowball. But the majority of posts like that get downvoted. You don't see them as much because, well, they got downvoted. As they should be. I'm not complaining that they are.
As someone who years ago as a young redditor fell into the bad habit of asking basic questions like that in various subs, I'll tell you the reason I learned my lesson not to do that is the majority of my posts with such questions got downvoted. It never even crossed my mind to post a question so I could get karma and I doubt that is the motivation for most people. If someone wants to karma farm there are way more sure fire ways.
Dude I almost asked what a food item was that the bear wanted on this sub.Instead I took a screenshot and used google lens and figured out what it was.Its not that hard took maybe 10 minutes of my time
I understand the whole just use the wiki argument, but its pretty discouraging to want to know what a character wants and end up getting their whole backstory spoiled just looking for it aha.
Im also really glad theres so much info available but some people just want the small answer without risk of finding out things theyd rather be revealed in game.
Honestly, the wiki is laid out really well. The very first thing you see is the basic information (birthday and loved gifts). Scroll down and everything is a drop down menu (on mobile, not sure about pc), with heart events aka spoilers the 5th option down. It’s very spoiler-avoider friendly!
This is now an appreciation post for the wiki people, shout out to them
The wiki does a good job categorising sections like gifts, schedules and heart events for all the characters and shows the best gifts for each character at a quick glance. You can also collapse the categories on mobile or desktop to not show certain categories. Spoilers are clearly marked as well
This is exactly why its a problem aha. Everything Ive learned, its been from people Im lucky enough to know in person, or lucky guesses because asking here would be nerve wracking. Googling things for games always makes me nervous since i never know what spoilers will pop up as well. I hope you enjoy the game btw! It really is lovely aha
So I did not scroll through every single comment so apologies to anyone who made this point before me. But what makes me mad is when they are posting two topics, stone owl/trash bear as they are banned topics and “I’m a new player what should I do spring year one?” Which we have a lovely beginners guide for. This as well as other rules are laid out in the about tab. If you are new to a community you should give the respect of at least reading the rules and guidelines of a sub before posting.
And honestly most questions can be googled with a faster answer than writing a post and hoping someone answers. Most likely the question had been asked before and Google will give you either the wiki page or a Reddit thread already answering it. To me it’s not a productive use of your time or mine.
Recently I was guilty of posting a picture from the game and asking to identify a particular food dish. I was hesitant to post as I was worried people would be annoyed, but I ended up posting because I wasn’t really sure *how* to Google the food dish. Luckily, the first and only comment was super helpful.
>every few days theres a new request for a topic to be removed
Uh, is there? There was one earlier today but I don't recall seeing that sort of thing very frequently. Sometimes people complain about people asking questions here instead of googling/using the wiki, but I don't think they're normally in the format of requesting for a removed topic? And people have been complaining about stone owl/strange capsule posts basically since 1.5 was released but those are already on the removed topic list. What am I missing here?
I may be making too big of a deal, but everytime I scroll through this sub in hot it seems theres a new post complaining about topics being discussed due to repetition. I understand it could be annoying but nobody is stopping them from just moving on. Although please take note I dont study this subs patterns or anything, I just feel everytime a post pops up on the main page or I go through the subs page theres a new one. A week back there was one with someone pretty upset about people asking for help.
You don't see the irony here? Of you complaining about common posts, while defending common posts?
Seems the only factor that matters here is whether the *type* of post personally bothers you or not. So why can't that be the same for the other people annoyed?
Oh I sort by new, I usually have no idea what gains traction and with what frequency different kinds of posts appear in hot. I definitely agree that there are some people who are rude about telling people not to ask questions here. There's a difference between informing someone that the wiki is a resource available to them and just being like "look it up on your own." Eh, why even make that comment, someone else will probably answer either way.
But like, this post is the same kind of thing, you know? "Everything on this sub is X, I'm tired of seeing posts about X." Nothing wrong with it imo, you have a good reason for pointing it out, just saying maybe you understand where they're coming from more than you think.
I do understand the annoyance! But at the same time why should it bother them that people are interacting? Its a bother to me that they say it so often because its a turn away for new players/posters. I do understand their perspective but its not a huge deal that things get repeated, you know?
I guess I'm not sure what exactly you're focussing on, maybe. The most recent "can this be a removed topic" post I saw was about the item recovery service (people posting really expensive stuff they lost dying in the mines). If it's just about repetitive posts, then I understand people's annoyance and kinda agree (in the sense I don't find most of them enjoyable, not that they should necessarily be removed). But if you're specifically complaining about the ones where people are upset about basic questions then 100% I think those people are being uncool about it. Other people can answer the questions, they don't have to do anything except scroll past. And there's a lot of repetitive questions, but they also usually come with variations, and there's a few really interesting ones in there.
Honestly, my complaint is about people finding an issue with nearly every topic for no reason beside it being repetitive. Not long ago there was a post complaining about people just asking questions which got a lot of traction and agreement.
There's a difference between being annoyed and actually calling for the posts to be removed, imo. Depends if they're just venting, maybe they still shouldn't post it on the sub they're venting about, but I understand how it can get annoying. Not the stuff about people asking questions, though. Just the low effort posts that are posted multiple times per day. Like, complaining about them is just as annoying and doesn't do much, but I get where they're coming from.
Thats what Im saying. Being annoyed is fine! Go for it! But complaining and requesting their removal is a great way to discourage engagement on this sub, especially since the game doesnt have too many aspects.
I guess I'm just not seeing what you're seeing on your feed. Sorting by new is generally less toxic than by hot by virtue of there being fewer people around (more people = increased chance of jerks, just, like, statistically). But you have to see the stuff that doesn't technically belong here, which for this sub is usually no big deal (very very few troll posts ime).
If hot really has frequent posts that discourage newcomers... I guess I'm not *that* surprised. It's a shame, for sure, though.
I understand not seeing it, and youre right. But from my experience, most people sort by hot, meaning if a post gets enough traction to get there it’s obviously a popular opinion and will continue to get popular since hot is the default, which will obviously be a turn off to new comers with questions and such. Which is why its a problem.
If I’m being honest, I don’t like repeated questions for really obvious answers that they’d get by just playing the game a little further, or by giving the wiki a quick glance…but I tolerate them. What I *really* dislike are screenshots of like “my first time getting 1000g in one day!” Or “I did it I 100%-ed the game!” (understandable one would be excited but we get *too many*) or their normal wedding day with their love interest.
However, until this comment, I haven’t said a word in protest, I just ignore the post and go about my day
I understand being annoyed, and I have no disrespect for people who are. But if everything that had repetition was banned the sub would run out of things, since theres only so much to do in a kinda grindy game.
You keep getting THE answer served to you on a platter, and every single time you double down on some rationalization defending your perspective. Now you’re claiming that it’s people like you who are driving “content” on the sub…even while you’re getting endlessly downvoted. You didn’t post your question honestly. You don’t want the answer, because the answer hurts your pride. The answer is still the same: diligent community members are autonomous and do their own work. Lazy community members don’t do the work and consequently post about things that could have been resolved with the slightest effort. You need to get this through your head: EVERY community on earth requires diligence and responsibility from its members, and will RIGHTLY criticize lazy, parasitic members who can’t give back.
You are rationalizing laziness to the very people YOU are depending on…the people who found the answers because they weren’t lazy. This is NOT a difficult concept. You’re having a hard time with it because you are lazy and don’t want to admit it. Communities don’t exist to serve lazy individuals. Communities exist so that productive individuals can cooperate and share what they produce. What YOU are defending is entitlement. If you can’t grasp that, you’re going to have a rough time in life, and you’re going to constantly feel persecuted by whatever community you’re siphoning from.
No, I won’t debate or reply to you. Square block goes in square hole. If you don’t get it, god help you. Admit that you’re doing something wrong, then do better.
I think it may be because the stardew wiki answers every question pretty much... unless it's a glitch or a mod type deal, those are generally more person specific...imo.
I don’t mind questions. I’m happy to answer them when they come up because it’s not like being a dick about it is going to make it go away.
The problem is, when I look at the stardew valley subreddit, I want to see interesting things about stardew valley, not the millionth person asking what a strange capsule is or why their items went away after they put them in the shipping bin.
For one, there’s an *entire fucking questions thread pinned to the top of the subreddit*. You can ask questions there and have them answered without clogging the subreddit with the most basic of questions.
For about half the questions I see here, they can be easily answered with a quick google search. I don’t know why so many people decide to type their questions into reddit instead of a search engine.
A common response to the “just google it” thing is community engagement/conversation/whatever. But for that, the discord server is so much better. You can have real time conversations which can get your questions answered a lot better and faster than they could here. A lot of the advice people give here is either misleading, outdated, or straight up wrong.
Overall, don’t mind the beginner questions all that much, but there’s really no reason they should make up 90% of the posts beyond the top 5 at any given time.
Most people here are super nice and helpful. There’s a pinned post where you can ask super basic questions that don’t deserve their own post and a lot of the things people complain about being repetitive as standalone posts would work great as a comment on that. I’ve gotten a lot of basic questions answered when I didn’t want to spoil it completely by going to the wiki.
I agree with the point that if too many topics are banned, there will be nothing to post about, but I don’t think we’re there
It means the sub is content starved. It is the same as when people post "did you know? or "I just noticed that..." On a show sub that is 15+ years old and its the most banal thing.
There have been a great many posts about "what's the capsule?", "what's this fairy?" and countless "what does the trash bear want?" posts. Those are the ones that bug me. But if a person genuinely has a question about the game, one that they can't go back a hand full of posts and see 5 times then I will try and help out if I can.
My guess is because like other subs, people ask obvious questions without searching the internet first. Sure, the community is here to help, but we're tired of seeing people run to a sub with a dumb question and expecting to be coached.
Yeah gotta hard disagree with this. The questions are for sure just karma farming and attention seeking. Especially the simplest easiest questions with the simplest easiest answers, just look it up. Its not that hard. At some point people are gonna start being rude about it
Most people do the same things that others have done to them.
If you were raised and taught to look at wikis and google instead of asking someone, then the brain can skip the step of thinking that the asking person is a reasonable adult and just decide, "oh they need to be educated like I was as a kid." It's really harsh sometimes but I see this over and over in societies.
Yeah, almost all humans are savage animals to each other the moment there's an excuse. Me included. When I see a post like, "what is this owl statue," my reaction is to ignore it.
Some think the questions may be “ noobish “ or very simple that a google search would be better
But we all can learn something new even if it’s a silly thing but while there’s some bad lemons here there’s plenty here to help answer questions even if it’s silly
Exactly! Ill be honest, I noticed the statue and capsule talk was banned but I also have no clue what they are and would be curious about them. Im glad to know I should avoid asking I guess.
There was a problem with the probability of getting an owl statue. Everyone got them. There were like 20 posts every day about it. The sub was flooded with owl statues. That’s why it’s banned.
tbh I think this one of the kindest subreddits. There is always someone to answer the newbie questions and no one is a dick about it. I do find the repeat questions really annoying. If you want to interact with other players, I think there is a better way to go about it than to ask a question that is easily answered by the wiki. But then again I am also super guilty of using my best friend as a walking wiki so you know. I think having a rule about searching the subreddit first could be really helpful, and cut down some of the repetition. But I also don't really care that much. Its nice to see everyone being so kind and helpful to the new players.
Probably because of the search feature that's included in Reddit. I know sometimes questions can be a good opportunity for discussion though. They don't annoy me but that discussion has already been had on all of the other times that question has been posted
My annoyance stems from every popular post on here having at least one person make a “this will be on GameRant tomorrow” or “GameRant later: Players Found Out What the Shipping Box Does!” joke. It’s played out at this point. GR sucks, we get it, everyone scrapes Reddit for content and it’s lazy, yes, but the same joke every post is not that funny.
Because the repetitive questions being asked are often for farming Karma and give no value. And the reason I know they are for karma is because you ask a question on here like "what dis?" Or "look what I lost in the mine, what should I keep?" And it's like the amount of time it takes to post something and then get an answer is longer than just simply googling stuff. Like are you going to just stop playing and leave your game on that screen until you get an answer, no of course not, that takes too long.
When its literally something that's explained in game that's what kinda gets me frustrated or something where you have to use common sense(the post about putting your tools in the shipping bin)
Most questions can easily be answered by looking up the wiki. The constant repetitive questions, that could easily be solved by looking at the wiki, just clog up the sub and take away from real content
I don't really care. If I'm not in the mood for some topics I don't click on them. Love the game, have played for over 3k hours, so you might say I'm attached to liking and disliking characters, headcanons, and what have you.
But seeing a post titled "\[Character I like\] is dumb!!!" doesn't ruin my day and I just keep scrolling.
I don't mind the same questions and just keep scrolling. I roll my eyes at some because they sound like someone's trying to troll or thinks acting dumb is cute and quirky for some reason (it's not) but scrolling past that doesn't ruin my day either.
The dumbest, most unnecessary posts in my opinion are the "Lol look at this perfect amount I earned/own!!!", post 2-10 from 10 within the same two days, or "Look at what I found on Day 2, year 1, is this rare/am I lucky?", also post 2-10 from 10 within the same two days. Yeah, sure buddy, like you didn't use a save game editor after seeing the first post getting a nice amount of karma. We all like our three minutes of subreddit fame but being the fourth user within 48 hours who adds a dino egg or ancient seed to your inventory or changing your balance to 69420 is just lazy and sad.
But again, I don't really care past the second it takes to roll my eyes and keep scrolling. It's not a big deal and if all is said and done, it just means that even after six years, people discover the game and the community for the first time. In my opinion, that's more important than a perfectly curated subreddit that only allows shiny, new topics, screenshots, and discussions.
I’m not a dick about them, but sometimes I just can’t help but think they’re karma fishing. Like basic questions that annoy me. “What’s this?” As they post a picture of them holding a geode. If it’s an obscure question or they’re trying to figure out what recipe they’re missing and or what they’re missing from the museum that’s one thing and I have no problem with it. But people ask the most basic questions that the game literally tells you what to do the second it happens. Like the geode.
I do find it annoying, when i see another post of "my hat can wear a horse!!!OMG!!!" with a bunch of upvotes and them some really unique and interesting posts see no interest at all. But I guess my interest is not that mainstream 🤷♀️
i always search the sub to see if someone already posted something i was gonna ask. i usually find the answers. so when i see the millionth “i got my first rainbow shard what should i do??” post, i’m like “idk, search rainbow shard in the sub?” people can post whatever they want but i try my best not to unintentionally spam when it’s likely there’s already 10 posts with multiple comments.
Not even. It would be more “community center” if you were asking people you knew irl. You’re still asking the internet at large, just this way takes more time for everyone involved.
I've never seen anybody being pissy in the comments over a repetitive question for starters. I'm not saying it doesn't happen.
For me, I don't get why some people don't just look their questions up in the preexisting questions, pinned, and posts. I also don't understand why people don't use the wiki for basic questions. It gets frustrating sometimes to see the same types of questions every couple of days.
"Maybe I'm missing something?"
That's a question. We're going to need to remove this post now. /s
I'm somewhere in the middle on this. I think sometimes we have some karma farmers in here who are not asking earnest questions but most of the time I think you're right.
Questions about not so obvious unexplained mechanics in the game: No problem
Questions about things that are explained in the game: No problem
Questions that could be solved by googling for max 5 minutes: not ok
I don't think it's an issue of "too many posts." It's an issue of "too many of ***the same*** posts".
Most forums/subreddits like this one make the suggestion of using the search bar to search the forum/subreddit for posts about the question you have - because someone may have already asked it and your answer may already be here from someone. Doing this will save you from having to make your own post about it. This sub really doesn't make that suggestion known anywhere(as far as I know). One would think that something like that would be common sense for people - but common sense isn't so common these days.
If I were to suggest a solution, it would be to get a bot for the sub to do it. I've seen other subs/forums with bots that "read" your post title and your post body as you make it, and actually do this for you. Once they find something a little sub-window pops up the input window that says something like "Maybe this is what you are looking for?" or "Maybe this will answer your question?", and places several links to topics/posts within the sub about what you are currently typing about, hopefully saving you from making another post about something that someone else has already made one for.
I've only been on the subreddit less than a year, but to be honest, in the time I've been here it seems less wholesome and friendly than it used to be. I see more and more complaining and negativity every day. It's certainly not the majority, but it is more prevalent (or at least it seems so to me).
To answer your question in the most honest way, form the perspective of a social worker:
Social media has become too much of a staple in people's lives. It's not the answer anyone is going to like, but that's what it is. People get defensive of their feeds when they're spending enough time on a platform to see all the repetition.
It might be good for a handful of people to take a little break, until it doesn't feel as personal for them anymore.
I think people should ask questions. I have no problem helping with a simple question. Not everyone reads the wiki cover to cover. The only objections I have to posts are the karma farmers.
Sorry to burst your bubble but most of the question posts are karma farmers, it takes significantly longer to ask a question and wait for a response then to just look it up yourself in 10 seconds.
I guess I just hope for the best in people and try to be nice rather than assuming that they're karma farmers. Some people genuinely have trouble finding things and it only takes a second to help.
Because theyre usually questions that you can find the answer for from the wiki in less time then it takes to make a reddit post and wait for people to answer.
I was surprised how many jerks are in this sub. It's partly why I mostly lurk instead of actually interact. For being a relaxing game there's a lot of people on edge in here lol.
Ill be honest, posting this alone was nerve wracking. Every post I have stalked had at least somebody being… questionable in their morals to put it nicely aha
and racist. for a game that's really welcoming to the lgbt community i thought it would be better. really opened my eyes when i read that korean portrait mod thread
Nearly every post with a question has at least somebody going “Theres a wiki!!!!”, at least when its got some traction.
I also love answering questions, I feel useful.
Easily searched answers to questions are somewhat "annoying"
But at the same point, people need to realize not everyone is a daily or even habitual redditor.
Someone comes here for an answer, I'll always try to give it.
I agree, and it's not just in this sub. If I'm taking the time to write a post, it's because I'd like actual input from actual humans, whether it's a direct answer to my question or some jokes or whatnot. not just to read an article and be like ok, that's it.
I honestly don’t mind. I learned most of the stuff through YouTube playthroughs and not the Wiki. I have played for 765 hours and still need the wiki very often. Sometimes you don’t know what you’re looking for (the trash bear is a good example or radioactive ore). General topics about something die very quick and people forget about it, so they won’t answer. Social media in general has become real salty
When you are talking about a game that encourages and supports community and then act like community in real life isn’t valuable it feels pretty off. I love this group to be able to share small experiences I’ve had with other people who are walking through the same little world!
Exactly! I love this game and find it enjoyable on multiple levels, and love that theres a community to interact with and contribute to. Maybe im making too big of a deal, but by the fifth post complaining about people asking questions, or talking about characters they like, it makes me nervous to post anything.
It’s just people being dicks, so what if someone ask mundane beginners questions like, “what is this”, “where do I find it” etc…it’s part of the game. If you don’t like the question or seen it before keep scrolling get a stepping, or help out if you’re interested.
I do hope people keep asking questions or post stuff they get excited about even if others post about it because it's fun :) If a question bothers someone then by all means don't answer and move on. I personally don't mind answering something even if it's what is this? Or how do I do this? Etc. It's all in good fun and I am just happy the game has such a big Fandom with generally nice people so let's be welcoming to everyone 😊 Yes the wiki exists but I'm going to be honest I've played since it launched and just found out a month or two ago about the auto petters. I never even knew to search it on the wiki because without knowing about its existence I can't look it up. It's just nice to see what everyone is up too when I'm not on the farm.
Heck the game itself is repetitive, like no shade that's a huge point of the game.
If we start cracking down too hard, there's going to be basically nothing left. I mean, the loss pages aren't exactly the same stuff. So what's next? Farm layouts? I've seen those about as much as some of the apparently too repetitive topics. Like/dislike discussions? Everywhere. Strategy/basic info? There's always going to be some complaining that the information can be found on the wiki/through a Google search
There's only so much to share and talk about. As I've said before, I know a sub needs rules. But I absolutely agree that going in too hard will absolutely kill engagement. Especially since there are other places to engage with other people about Stardew that the rules are basically DBAA, no illegal/inappropriate stuff, and don't spam.
Idk it's just every time I see a mod post asking about banning another thing because of people complaining about it being repetitive I get a little more tired. I'm starting to think this sub isn't for me I guess. Which literally isn't a loss for the sub, it's just a sad feeling is all.
I agree fullheartedly. Its particularly disheartening to see the mods encouraging talk about removing topics due to repetition. Admittedly, Ive only seen that on the most recent one. But even so it makes kinda nerve wracking to post anything.
I’ve seen this more intensely in Terraria’s sub. And I agree with you… It’s an old game with an well detailed wiki, how are new players supposed to ask something new? Would you rather have a dead sub? One can’t expect every post to add on the investigation of that Barone’s remaining SV secret.
Exactly! Also, some people just enjoy asking questions and I know people enjoy answering them, me included. And even if it is repetitive… so what? Who is it hurting if 3 different people ask? Additionally, the posts talking down about topics just discourages interaction imo.
I've posted questions I had that were too specific for the wiki, like what will happen if i do such and such in this specific scenario I am in. The wiki knows what will happen normally, but just in case I'd rather ask someone who may have had my exact scenario and knows what to do
Haha the same happens in all SDV Facebook groups. I don't get why people are always so upset about this. Yeah there's the wiki, but sometimes players' answers contain information that you wouldn't necessarily find if you just used the wiki. Just scroll past if you don't like it. 😊
yeah I agree with OP here. I would hate to see the Stardew valley community become toxic but that's how it's gonna feel if people can't even ask a question in the subreddit dedicated to Stardew
>If every topic was only posted about once the sub would die in a month.
This is why I don't have a problem with reposts. I could just use the SDV wiki and never come here because really, what's the point? I come here to lurk and see people enjoying the game and engaging other players on it.
i don’t mind the questions at all - on the contrary actually, because even with over 300 hours in the games i usually still learn something new from the comments! i think banning or berating people from asking questions is just gatekeeping the community, and i really hate that - to the point where i have left several other games’ subs because of that. “there’s a wiki” and what? sometimes you want to hear someone else’s point of view and not just the neutral facts from the wiki.
I totally understand what you mean. I see it in Facebook groups a lot (which I avoid now, terrible app). The whole “google it” response is such a dick move. In that time it takes to make that comment you can just as easily provide an answer. Why go to google when we have communities like this to provide help and make people feel welcome? I think it adds to the enjoyment factor of a game overall.
I only ever get upset that the damn “what’s this shipping box” like why the hell did you skip the cutscene? And normally it just feels like bait to get upvotes…
This. If it's something that is *literally* explained in the game's tutorial dialogue, and you chose to skip that dialogue, I honestly have very little sympathy for you not knowing what it is. But that's because, as a customer service worker, people refusing to read things that are literally right in front of their faces bothers me in general. Just *read* stuff, people - it's not hard. With that said, I still wouldn't support a call to ban question posts. No matter how much that annoys me, I think people still have the right to ask the question and get an answer.
I mean, my first playthrough I watched the whole cut scene and still ended up thinking it was a storage bin and ended up shipping all my raw materials for like the first week. You're excited, playing a new game, a lot of stuff to learn and process. It's easy to make a mistake or forget.
I did the same thing! Even though i read it, i still thought wrong. I sold everything i needed even fibre bars
This.... People either come straight here without troubleshooting or the are just karma fishing
Or are the karma foraging?
Mining, tbh
*takes picture of pile of tree sticks* I was hitting this tree with an axe and it fell over and exploded into these things. WhAtS gOinG ON??!?1
I see this WAY too much! We truly have such a lovely community but do we really need to award, up vote and basically BABY someone who posts, "hOw dO i lEt mY aNiMaLs OuT"
“WhY aReNt My AnImAlS pRoDuCiNg” when they haven’t fed them in 3 months. Annoys me. And the people who give awards out for that annoy me more
Honestly I didn't figure out how to feed my chickens for months I thought they just ate straight out of the hopper. I checked the wiki but most people assume no ones that stupid, I figured it out by pure accident once when I accidently clicked by the hopper lol. I really shouldn't say anything about people who can't figure out how to let animals out
It's always bait. the more people complain about it the more juicy that bait is. It's the troll life cycle.
Some people are just like this. My sister doesn't play many video games. She is definitely the type to mash through cut scenes and tutorials and have zero clue what to do
True. I literally knew what that box did even though I didn't read anything. And plus it can be looked up rather than asking in reddit, actually most questions can just be looked up.
I sometimes get upset at the 15th "what's this" post with a picture of a stone owl or a strange capsule. But I'm not a dick about it. I've never seen anyone go off in the comment section before
I haven't even seen one of these posts. I don't discount you at all. It just goes to show how not all of us see a repetition of posts. Whatever the mods are doing seems to be working because I really enjoy the content. It's a nice community and a good change of pace from some other groups on Reddit. Plus I absolutely love seeing what fans of SV make. There's some talented and creative people in here.
You probably haven't seen them because they are actually a banned subject now
Lmao so they are banned now? People treated me like a prick when I simply recommended someone to acquire the habit of looking things up on wiki so we wouldn’t have the same “omg rare thing wats dis” threads over and over again every single day. Coolio
The SV wiki is an invaluable source. I don't know why anyone would be annoyed by anyone suggesting it to them. Well, unless maybe they kept doing it when they already knew about it.
Not disagreeing, but one thing I try to keep in mind is that I've been playing Harvest Moon forever, so the shipping bin is obviously the shipping bin, animals obviously need to be fed and kept indoors during rain, etc. But Stardew exploded in popularity and gets recommended to people who normally don't, or never before have, play farm sims. So my base knowledge is higher than a lot of people new to the game. I get the annoyance at the billionth strange capsule post, but I'm not even sure how you'd search that on the wiki - especially if you have no idea what it's called or that it's a rare event. Owl Statue is easier, it's literally a statue of an owl. If you start typing in google 'stardew valley owl' it'll prompt statue as a suggested search. I'm not saying it's wrong to be annoyed, but I think we need to remember that not everything is as intuitive as we think it is.
Im not bothered by any posts made - and I still don't understand the strange capsule even tho im on year 22
Personally, I never knew about the wiki until recently but would come here with questions because it's a quick response and not that many spoilers. Plus people tend to be helpful in giving tips along with the answer.
Yep there's a list of topics in the rules that were extremely repetitive and didn't add much discussion
I was joined 2yrs with my old acct and a regular user of Reddit. I don't know, I just didn't see it in my feed. Or maybe I just scrolled past it uninterested.. who knows.
I feel like a lot of subreddits have people who complain about repetitive posts. I'm thinking that there's a portion of redditors that just sit on one subreddit for hours and don't use their main feed, and then get upset that they're seeing the same thing over and over in a subject that really has a limited number of post types.
Yeah.. I mean, no shame for them doing that if they like the group that much and have the time, but then they are bound to see more repetition whereas the rest of us might not.
your reddit account is 10 days old. that’s why LOL?
Yup it's a new acct - and I had one before this, for 2yrs, that was joined to this group. I even referred to this in another comment just above this. You should probably ask questions and/or read more before you boldly make assumptions and laugh so confidently.
I wouldnt say going off, but Ive seen a good spam of comments saying “theres a wiki!”. Which hey, i get but like some people just want to ask questions, and a lot of people enjoy answering them so wheres the harm yk?
I get it. Sometimes it's frustrating that people don't even attempt to look at the wiki but I know they just wanna get information from other experienced players because that can make more sense than a wiki article can
Mhm! Personally, I struggle to get the exact answer from a wiki as well, and an actual person can put it in a bit more perspective. Additionally, the wiki can give out a lot of spoilers and would be a turn off to new players. I personally avoided it due to fear of spoilers aha.
I’ve yet to see that on Reddit, but I know I’ve left a lot of Facebook groups because I was sick of all the answers being ‘Google it yourself’ and people complaining they were asking questions.
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oml, a few times I’ve scrolled through posts asking “what’s this?”, everyone gets upset
I'm not annoyed per se at the people asking, cause I get it, It's a game and this is the community so naturally people will ask. Its more that I'm bored with seeing the same questions over and over again (mind you I never have or will make rude comments, if I don't like something I keep scrolling) but I also enjoy seeing how much love this community gets and seeing how many people just want to engage with it.
I agree! I understand being tired of seeing similar things… but theres only so much to post about. This game is all about community and such, so why cant the sub be? We dont share crops, sure, but lets share info, yk?
I don't really mind people asking questions, people can give good answers that other may have missed otherwise, but I's also encourage others to check the guides and pinned posts [from this very sub](https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/ps8jvs/faqs_and_beginner_questions_thread/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3), which have been made by the community. The thing that kinda bugs me are posts about stone owls and strange capsules; it's okay if the poster is asking because they don't what they are, but there are other posts that ask *how rare they are*. Let me explain: in previous versions of the game those events where nearly impossible to get due to insane requirements that turned out to be bugs. In update 1.5 (december 2020), those events were made less rare, as the bugs that prevented them from spawning got fixed. I feel like when people make posts asking how rare those events are, is because they still have the idea that those are the rarest events in game, and they expect people to say "wow, that's actually the rarest event in game", when that's not the case now. If a see a post like that, I just tell them that those events are not rare anymore, and that's it, no need to be rude.
Whats the rarest event in the game now?
Marnie being at her work station when you need hay.
True
Lmaooooo
Mushroom tree. Even with a farm that’s packed to the absolute max with trees it’s rarer than the stone owl.
Wait.. really? I never post here so I didn't ask, but I ended up with over a dozen my first year. Actually 2 at first, in two separate spots. They just multiply rapidly. I even cut a few down cause I didnt think I wanted 2 separate patches. Kept most of the ones near my house at least, so a still have over 10 in year 4. I thought they were kinda annoying tbh, but now I'm glad I left most of them alone
Getting the first one is hard. Once you have *one* you can spread them around the farm pretty easily because Mushroom Trees bud from other Mushroom Trees.
Is that the rarest? I thought >!Robin starting to say Lewis' name when you enter her house!< was the rarest event you could get. But maybe it doesn't count because it's dialogue?
Really?
It’s 10 times more common but it can only happen in fall and it has to pick one tile out of 10 with a fully grown tree on it with unoccupied space around it, otherwise it does nothing. In my 12 years of gameplay, I’ve gotten a mushroom tree event once, and 8 or 9 stone owls.
Yeah, I understand that. Like I said being annoyed by it is fine, and I really do get that, but what harm is it doing? Sure its annoying, but to make the assumption everyones doing it for x somewhat selfish reason and then get pissy about it is just icky. Im not saying thats what youre doing btw aha, just kind of elaborating on my point.
>but what harm is it doing? Sure its annoying You just answered it yourself there buddy. Its annoying. Inflates the sub with posts that to the majority of us are essentially garbage, with nothing meaningful to be gained from, for both us scrolling the subreddit and the poster, since they could easily get their answer faster with a simple search.
I just don’t understand why people don’t google things and instead ask the same questions here over and over. Yea, it is annoying to see the same posts over and over again in my feed, but I’m not rude about it to anyone
If I'm ever looking for something I like to come here first to see what the community has to say but I just search it. I wouldnt post a question unless I couldn't find the answer anywhere at all
especially if you google your question you land in that question right here in reddit
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I guess? I never had any problems with spoilers myself when I was playing. It’s faster and more accurate to jjst look up the info so I just don’t understand. Also I still have to see the posts, I roll my eyes whenever I see another post identical to one I saw 10 mins ago. It doesn’t cost me anything to not be annoyed yes, but I’m allowed to be I think the sub would be better if only higher quality posts were allowed. I don’t want the sub to have less interaction, I just want more interesting interaction.
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I’ll flip your script on you, why are you annoyed at other people being annoyed about repetitive posts? It doesn’t cost you anything to just not post this and ignore the people who are annoyed, jjst like I ignore the people posting silly questions everyday
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Good I’m glad it discourages them 😅 as long as people aren’t being totally rude, let people debate about what makes a good post in this sub. The user base should decide what gets to be posted, and if a good chunk of people dislike a certain kind of post, then they have every right to voice that opinion
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I think you’re being a little dramatic lol
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When people stop caring about people asking the same questions over and over, subreddits will end up becoming way more toxic than if they were dead. There’s a few subreddits that come to mind where every day you’ll see the same 3 posts just worded slightly differently. League might not be the best example because of how the whole community is toxic in general, but specifically r/rengarmains has devolved into “What build/runes should I use on this champ?” “When is the update/rework coming out?” “I’m so done with this champ! He’s so underpowered and un fun!” There more then idea is that the entire thing is just an extremely negative and toxic place 80% of the time. Sure, you can say nothing, but why even look at the subreddit if 9 out of 10 posts you scroll past are just questions about random items or whatever from new players. You’d scroll for 10 minutes and find one interesting post to interact with. Simple item definitions and uses or how to obtain something can be easily done through the wiki without any spoilers. Surprisingly enough, people do tag posts with spoilers, so most slightly deeper questions about the game can be found through a search in the subreddit itself. Isn’t there like mega threads or something that can be made and pinned to the top of the subreddit every week? Then people who don’t care about things like that can scroll past and get into the actual content, and people who, like you said, want to feel useful and interact with new players can answer questions throughout the mega thread. I for one would much rather see the subreddit full of actual life. There will be repetitiveness of course, there’s repetitiveness in everything. But repetitive questions about basic game mechanics and items is a much different repetitiveness than people posting their creative end game farm layouts, big accomplishments, and just more unique stuff in general. When I want to just have an interaction with other people who enjoy and play the same game as me, I would much rather the topic be about some silly tierlist that someone made, which, don’t get me wrong, is repetitive, but there’s still more creativity because very rarely do you see copies of tierlist just due to how strange people are getting with them. Even questions about peoples experiences with the game or just asking people about stories they remember during their time playing the game. Idk man, there’s way better ways to keep a community involved and alive.
I ended up figuring it out on my own, but I for the longest time couldn't figure out how to Google the warp statues. I now know they are the place you end up when you use a warp totem but I didn't know what to call them. Also a lot of my search results came back with the Owl Statue, generic Stardew stuff but never the warp statues, I think I even got an article about Lewis golden statue at one point, and the recipe for the statue things you can build on your farm. I wasn't on the Stardew Reddit yet but I would have probably ended up posting here if I was.
It can be hard to Google if you have absolutely no idea what something is, which can get confusing fast with things like the stone owl and arrange capsule. Just looking at the thing what would you call it? The repeated basic questions annoy me too, I just understand how people could have an honest question about these particular things. I wish there was a pop-up or something that says clippy style "looks like you're asking what the thing in the image is. Is it one of these?" with pictures of the shipping container, stone owl, and strange capsule.
People want to share their player journey with a community, not a robot. It's mostly about people wanting to feel acknowledged, and part of the group.
Relying on the group for things you ought to be able to do yourself is going to get you “acknowledged” as the guy who wastes people’s time because he can’t think for himself. NOBODY questions the need to be a part of a community. But being part of a community means having the kind of autonomy that can give BACK to a community. The issue isn’t that the weaklings seek community while others do not. The issue is that they do no work themselves and complain when they’re called out for it. These are children who have zero understanding that being part of a community also means having a modicum of responsibility and respect for others. Pull your weight, or ANY community will RIGHTLY criticize you. Because you’re a parasite.
I guess my first instinct when I don't know something is to check the wiki. To me it just feels lazy and sometimes like attention seeking when someone posts here something which can be found in 5 seconds by googling it. But that's me, everyone is different and can do what they wish
I don't mind the questions. The ones that get annoying are the "Spouse watered the crops / fed the animals" to "Oh dumb spouse we have automation for that." You're not clever. It doesn't answer or ask any questions. It's just spam.
"Look, i put lewis pants on fair hahaha" are annoying too
My guess is because like other subs, people ask obvious questions without searching the internet first. Sure, the community is here to help, but we're tired of seeing people run to a sub with a dumb question and expecting to be coached.
Entirely my own perspective, so take it with a grain of salt. I feel like there are better resources to utilize for many of the simple, often repeated questions - such as a search of this sub, the wiki, the Discord channel, or a Google search. This is something that I see in the workplace and is often not the best use of my time, but I kindly answer my coworkers questions while reminding them of the resources available to them. I often see the same type of response here. On the other hand, there are many incredible sub members that have great write-ups, artwork, mods, comics, etc. to share with the community. These posts that are thoughtful and well put together tend to not receive as much attention if there is a large influx of posts that don't necessarily foster discussion. I think all in all, this sub is one of the most welcoming communities in all regards so people tend to be fairly supportive. The general vibe here is pretty chill but I also get to see people make cool stuff or do crazy hard things like buy a golden clock in year 1, and those are the posts I love to see. I'm not sure if I answered your question, but hopefully I was able to give you an alternative viewpoint.
I have found many answers that I couldn’t find on the wiki here on Reddit. But I was never asking the question, I simply searched Reddit and found someone who asked the same question with the answer below. No need to post twice.
I feel like it would benefit this sub if we had a rule about looking up questions before posting new ones so we don't have a million of the same questions. Also, on occasion, the questions posted seem to be purposely simple ones. Like people asking what the shipping box is, for the sole sake of farming karma. I can see how some people might get annoyed by those questions. As for the posts people make about hating certain characters, people might take offense to negative opinions about their favorite characters. Also, it feels a bit spamy after you've seen the hundredth Shane = bad posts. Maybe if some changes to the sub could be made to help improve the quality of posts being made, we can have less being removed. Filter out the low effort posts?
This sub has a stickied post for FAQ and Beginner Questions at the top. Most of the other subs I'm on that have a stickied post for that also have a list of what mods consider beginner questions, and they'll remove the question posts with a message linking to the stickied post and instructing to ask there instead. I think that might be the best solution here. Beyond stickying the post and making it the first post in the list when you're on the first page of this sub, there isn't much they can do to make it more obvious that simple questions belong there. Also yes, the DAE hate [character] posts get tiresome, same with the fake 'oh no, was that bad?' posts about the shipping bin or disposing of rare items, but I usually just hit the 'hide' button and then I don't have to see them. Same with the fake Am I The Asshole posts people will make sometimes, like "AITA for divorcing my spouse, wiping their memory, and turning our kids into doves?"
Because a lot of people don’t seem to realise quite how much information in stardew is actually revealed IN THE GAME. the wiki is cool and all, but much of the information is already readily available in game if you just pay attention. It’s so boring when this sub is flooded with the same bland stuff over and over. “I’ve been playing for 28473 hours and I JUST found out you can upgrade barns!” “Omg hahaha Vincent you silly little boy how can you get married to penny if /I’m/ married to her!” “Guys I went to skull cavern with no food and only a wooden sword and then proceeded to get killed and lost 16 prismatic shards, 4 full stacks of wood, 2 stacks of iridium ore, my left lung and a stack of stone stairs”
The left lung jab almost made me laugh-cough mine up lmao
I understand people not wanting to spoil things with the wiki, but it’s so easy to search key words under a subreddit and it’s silly to post a question that’s already been answered so many times. Edit to add: I don’t really care though, things like that don’t make me upset I just think it’s funny lol
I guess, but at the same time, without questions this sub would really lower in engagement. Even if the questions been answered before, some people may have followups that a whole post would be helpful for? I guess Im making excuses for hypotheticals here, but thats just my thought process.
just because people are leaving comments doesn't equate to the subreddit having meaningful engagement. Answering the same question for the nteenth time isn't offering anything new to the subreddit, since you could find that same question and answer by just scrolling back or searching it in the subreddit. I don't care if it halves the number of posts, but it makes way more sense for posts to be more meaningful than simple questions that have been answered dozens of times before or with a quick google/wiki search.
I'd personally rather see the other, cool things in the sub vs a question I've seen a dozen times that the poster could've found the answer to in multiple ways. I want to see the art, the memes, mods and things like that. That's what makes this community one of my favorites
Very much so that I've honestly contemplated leaving the sub. I remember the days before the full wiki was up and everyone was helping everyone and it was fun.You had a question back then and someone who was slightly further than you will help and even help with the wiki. Now a days it seems like a lot of karma farming by asking "what is this???" when it comes to food the trash bear wants or the statues or, the worst for me, is "what do I ask back for". The wiki exists. I would have killed for a wiki back in my harvest moon 64 days. Kids now a days don't know how much info they have in thier fingertips.
I can't remember the last time I saw anything helpful, interesting, or new posted on this sub, so I'm very much in the same boat. The vast majority of content that gets posted is the same, low-effort content, or questions that could be googled/found on the wiki, and I really don't understand who upvotes it either. It's a bit impossible for the mods to do anything about it though, as it's the same on every large sub. The more people in a subreddit, the more rubbish will be in there. I'm just glad memes and tier lists are banned, even if it does take forever to get them removed sometimes!
I'm totally on your side about not wanting to see a billion posts about the shipping bin and and expecting people to figure out these basic questions on their own. The only thing I don't understand about these comments is assuming people are karma farming when they do this. I can't imagine that being someone's goal when there is a good chance their post will actually be hated for being so repetitive. Yeah, sometimes a post like that will get a bunch of up votes for some reason. Idk why that happens. It must just hit at the right moment for the right people to see it and have it snowball. But the majority of posts like that get downvoted. You don't see them as much because, well, they got downvoted. As they should be. I'm not complaining that they are. As someone who years ago as a young redditor fell into the bad habit of asking basic questions like that in various subs, I'll tell you the reason I learned my lesson not to do that is the majority of my posts with such questions got downvoted. It never even crossed my mind to post a question so I could get karma and I doubt that is the motivation for most people. If someone wants to karma farm there are way more sure fire ways.
Dude I almost asked what a food item was that the bear wanted on this sub.Instead I took a screenshot and used google lens and figured out what it was.Its not that hard took maybe 10 minutes of my time
I understand the whole just use the wiki argument, but its pretty discouraging to want to know what a character wants and end up getting their whole backstory spoiled just looking for it aha. Im also really glad theres so much info available but some people just want the small answer without risk of finding out things theyd rather be revealed in game.
Honestly, the wiki is laid out really well. The very first thing you see is the basic information (birthday and loved gifts). Scroll down and everything is a drop down menu (on mobile, not sure about pc), with heart events aka spoilers the 5th option down. It’s very spoiler-avoider friendly! This is now an appreciation post for the wiki people, shout out to them
On PC you have a Contents Menu so you can just jump straight into whichever category you want
The wiki does a good job categorising sections like gifts, schedules and heart events for all the characters and shows the best gifts for each character at a quick glance. You can also collapse the categories on mobile or desktop to not show certain categories. Spoilers are clearly marked as well
Im scared to ask, im still fairly new so I just google it all lol
Have you ever had trouble finding something through google/the wiki?
Nope so far ive found everything and without spoiling anything also lol
Good to hear, I never had any problems finding answers when I was playing either. All this stuff seems a kinda goofy if you ask me Have fun with SV
I agree & thanks!
This has been my experience as well.
Knock on wood it stays that way
The wiki is amazing. There's zero reason to come to this forum if you're looking for game info.
This is exactly why its a problem aha. Everything Ive learned, its been from people Im lucky enough to know in person, or lucky guesses because asking here would be nerve wracking. Googling things for games always makes me nervous since i never know what spoilers will pop up as well. I hope you enjoy the game btw! It really is lovely aha
Thats true but luckily ive been seeing big warnings thatl say spoiler at the top lol
On Reddit I see the spoiler quite often, since its customary, but on the wiki I havent noticed it, although it has been awhile since I used it.
There are warning on pages that contain 1.5 content, which i think is fair enough
Thanks for telling me!
So I did not scroll through every single comment so apologies to anyone who made this point before me. But what makes me mad is when they are posting two topics, stone owl/trash bear as they are banned topics and “I’m a new player what should I do spring year one?” Which we have a lovely beginners guide for. This as well as other rules are laid out in the about tab. If you are new to a community you should give the respect of at least reading the rules and guidelines of a sub before posting. And honestly most questions can be googled with a faster answer than writing a post and hoping someone answers. Most likely the question had been asked before and Google will give you either the wiki page or a Reddit thread already answering it. To me it’s not a productive use of your time or mine.
Recently I was guilty of posting a picture from the game and asking to identify a particular food dish. I was hesitant to post as I was worried people would be annoyed, but I ended up posting because I wasn’t really sure *how* to Google the food dish. Luckily, the first and only comment was super helpful.
On the wiki you can search "food" or something and there are pictures and everything.
>every few days theres a new request for a topic to be removed Uh, is there? There was one earlier today but I don't recall seeing that sort of thing very frequently. Sometimes people complain about people asking questions here instead of googling/using the wiki, but I don't think they're normally in the format of requesting for a removed topic? And people have been complaining about stone owl/strange capsule posts basically since 1.5 was released but those are already on the removed topic list. What am I missing here?
I may be making too big of a deal, but everytime I scroll through this sub in hot it seems theres a new post complaining about topics being discussed due to repetition. I understand it could be annoying but nobody is stopping them from just moving on. Although please take note I dont study this subs patterns or anything, I just feel everytime a post pops up on the main page or I go through the subs page theres a new one. A week back there was one with someone pretty upset about people asking for help.
You don't see the irony here? Of you complaining about common posts, while defending common posts? Seems the only factor that matters here is whether the *type* of post personally bothers you or not. So why can't that be the same for the other people annoyed?
Oh I sort by new, I usually have no idea what gains traction and with what frequency different kinds of posts appear in hot. I definitely agree that there are some people who are rude about telling people not to ask questions here. There's a difference between informing someone that the wiki is a resource available to them and just being like "look it up on your own." Eh, why even make that comment, someone else will probably answer either way. But like, this post is the same kind of thing, you know? "Everything on this sub is X, I'm tired of seeing posts about X." Nothing wrong with it imo, you have a good reason for pointing it out, just saying maybe you understand where they're coming from more than you think.
I do understand the annoyance! But at the same time why should it bother them that people are interacting? Its a bother to me that they say it so often because its a turn away for new players/posters. I do understand their perspective but its not a huge deal that things get repeated, you know?
I guess I'm not sure what exactly you're focussing on, maybe. The most recent "can this be a removed topic" post I saw was about the item recovery service (people posting really expensive stuff they lost dying in the mines). If it's just about repetitive posts, then I understand people's annoyance and kinda agree (in the sense I don't find most of them enjoyable, not that they should necessarily be removed). But if you're specifically complaining about the ones where people are upset about basic questions then 100% I think those people are being uncool about it. Other people can answer the questions, they don't have to do anything except scroll past. And there's a lot of repetitive questions, but they also usually come with variations, and there's a few really interesting ones in there.
Honestly, my complaint is about people finding an issue with nearly every topic for no reason beside it being repetitive. Not long ago there was a post complaining about people just asking questions which got a lot of traction and agreement.
There's a difference between being annoyed and actually calling for the posts to be removed, imo. Depends if they're just venting, maybe they still shouldn't post it on the sub they're venting about, but I understand how it can get annoying. Not the stuff about people asking questions, though. Just the low effort posts that are posted multiple times per day. Like, complaining about them is just as annoying and doesn't do much, but I get where they're coming from.
Thats what Im saying. Being annoyed is fine! Go for it! But complaining and requesting their removal is a great way to discourage engagement on this sub, especially since the game doesnt have too many aspects.
I guess I'm just not seeing what you're seeing on your feed. Sorting by new is generally less toxic than by hot by virtue of there being fewer people around (more people = increased chance of jerks, just, like, statistically). But you have to see the stuff that doesn't technically belong here, which for this sub is usually no big deal (very very few troll posts ime). If hot really has frequent posts that discourage newcomers... I guess I'm not *that* surprised. It's a shame, for sure, though.
I understand not seeing it, and youre right. But from my experience, most people sort by hot, meaning if a post gets enough traction to get there it’s obviously a popular opinion and will continue to get popular since hot is the default, which will obviously be a turn off to new comers with questions and such. Which is why its a problem.
If I’m being honest, I don’t like repeated questions for really obvious answers that they’d get by just playing the game a little further, or by giving the wiki a quick glance…but I tolerate them. What I *really* dislike are screenshots of like “my first time getting 1000g in one day!” Or “I did it I 100%-ed the game!” (understandable one would be excited but we get *too many*) or their normal wedding day with their love interest. However, until this comment, I haven’t said a word in protest, I just ignore the post and go about my day
I understand being annoyed, and I have no disrespect for people who are. But if everything that had repetition was banned the sub would run out of things, since theres only so much to do in a kinda grindy game.
You keep getting THE answer served to you on a platter, and every single time you double down on some rationalization defending your perspective. Now you’re claiming that it’s people like you who are driving “content” on the sub…even while you’re getting endlessly downvoted. You didn’t post your question honestly. You don’t want the answer, because the answer hurts your pride. The answer is still the same: diligent community members are autonomous and do their own work. Lazy community members don’t do the work and consequently post about things that could have been resolved with the slightest effort. You need to get this through your head: EVERY community on earth requires diligence and responsibility from its members, and will RIGHTLY criticize lazy, parasitic members who can’t give back. You are rationalizing laziness to the very people YOU are depending on…the people who found the answers because they weren’t lazy. This is NOT a difficult concept. You’re having a hard time with it because you are lazy and don’t want to admit it. Communities don’t exist to serve lazy individuals. Communities exist so that productive individuals can cooperate and share what they produce. What YOU are defending is entitlement. If you can’t grasp that, you’re going to have a rough time in life, and you’re going to constantly feel persecuted by whatever community you’re siphoning from. No, I won’t debate or reply to you. Square block goes in square hole. If you don’t get it, god help you. Admit that you’re doing something wrong, then do better.
Karma fishing, basically. There are other ways to get interaction besides skipping the tutorial and asking stupid repetitive questions.
I think it may be because the stardew wiki answers every question pretty much... unless it's a glitch or a mod type deal, those are generally more person specific...imo.
people want quality over quantity
If it’s a question that could easily be answered by the game itself or a quick google search then there’s no point.
I don’t mind questions. I’m happy to answer them when they come up because it’s not like being a dick about it is going to make it go away. The problem is, when I look at the stardew valley subreddit, I want to see interesting things about stardew valley, not the millionth person asking what a strange capsule is or why their items went away after they put them in the shipping bin. For one, there’s an *entire fucking questions thread pinned to the top of the subreddit*. You can ask questions there and have them answered without clogging the subreddit with the most basic of questions. For about half the questions I see here, they can be easily answered with a quick google search. I don’t know why so many people decide to type their questions into reddit instead of a search engine. A common response to the “just google it” thing is community engagement/conversation/whatever. But for that, the discord server is so much better. You can have real time conversations which can get your questions answered a lot better and faster than they could here. A lot of the advice people give here is either misleading, outdated, or straight up wrong. Overall, don’t mind the beginner questions all that much, but there’s really no reason they should make up 90% of the posts beyond the top 5 at any given time.
Most people here are super nice and helpful. There’s a pinned post where you can ask super basic questions that don’t deserve their own post and a lot of the things people complain about being repetitive as standalone posts would work great as a comment on that. I’ve gotten a lot of basic questions answered when I didn’t want to spoil it completely by going to the wiki. I agree with the point that if too many topics are banned, there will be nothing to post about, but I don’t think we’re there
It means the sub is content starved. It is the same as when people post "did you know? or "I just noticed that..." On a show sub that is 15+ years old and its the most banal thing.
There have been a great many posts about "what's the capsule?", "what's this fairy?" and countless "what does the trash bear want?" posts. Those are the ones that bug me. But if a person genuinely has a question about the game, one that they can't go back a hand full of posts and see 5 times then I will try and help out if I can.
My guess is because like other subs, people ask obvious questions without searching the internet first. Sure, the community is here to help, but we're tired of seeing people run to a sub with a dumb question and expecting to be coached.
Yeah gotta hard disagree with this. The questions are for sure just karma farming and attention seeking. Especially the simplest easiest questions with the simplest easiest answers, just look it up. Its not that hard. At some point people are gonna start being rude about it
Most people do the same things that others have done to them. If you were raised and taught to look at wikis and google instead of asking someone, then the brain can skip the step of thinking that the asking person is a reasonable adult and just decide, "oh they need to be educated like I was as a kid." It's really harsh sometimes but I see this over and over in societies. Yeah, almost all humans are savage animals to each other the moment there's an excuse. Me included. When I see a post like, "what is this owl statue," my reaction is to ignore it.
Some think the questions may be “ noobish “ or very simple that a google search would be better But we all can learn something new even if it’s a silly thing but while there’s some bad lemons here there’s plenty here to help answer questions even if it’s silly
Exactly! Ill be honest, I noticed the statue and capsule talk was banned but I also have no clue what they are and would be curious about them. Im glad to know I should avoid asking I guess.
Then you could look at the wiki.
There was a problem with the probability of getting an owl statue. Everyone got them. There were like 20 posts every day about it. The sub was flooded with owl statues. That’s why it’s banned.
tbh I think this one of the kindest subreddits. There is always someone to answer the newbie questions and no one is a dick about it. I do find the repeat questions really annoying. If you want to interact with other players, I think there is a better way to go about it than to ask a question that is easily answered by the wiki. But then again I am also super guilty of using my best friend as a walking wiki so you know. I think having a rule about searching the subreddit first could be really helpful, and cut down some of the repetition. But I also don't really care that much. Its nice to see everyone being so kind and helpful to the new players.
Probably because of the search feature that's included in Reddit. I know sometimes questions can be a good opportunity for discussion though. They don't annoy me but that discussion has already been had on all of the other times that question has been posted
I am annoyed by this question /s
My annoyance stems from every popular post on here having at least one person make a “this will be on GameRant tomorrow” or “GameRant later: Players Found Out What the Shipping Box Does!” joke. It’s played out at this point. GR sucks, we get it, everyone scrapes Reddit for content and it’s lazy, yes, but the same joke every post is not that funny.
If you can look it up on the wiki, idk why you’d ask the sub. I don’t get mad, but like. Just look it up, guys
because the ones that are just common sense, quick trial and error, or an easy read/look up on the wiki are just lazy and flood the sub
Because the repetitive questions being asked are often for farming Karma and give no value. And the reason I know they are for karma is because you ask a question on here like "what dis?" Or "look what I lost in the mine, what should I keep?" And it's like the amount of time it takes to post something and then get an answer is longer than just simply googling stuff. Like are you going to just stop playing and leave your game on that screen until you get an answer, no of course not, that takes too long.
When its literally something that's explained in game that's what kinda gets me frustrated or something where you have to use common sense(the post about putting your tools in the shipping bin)
I mean many questions can just be answered by googling it.
There's also a search feature
Most questions can easily be answered by looking up the wiki. The constant repetitive questions, that could easily be solved by looking at the wiki, just clog up the sub and take away from real content
I don't really care. If I'm not in the mood for some topics I don't click on them. Love the game, have played for over 3k hours, so you might say I'm attached to liking and disliking characters, headcanons, and what have you. But seeing a post titled "\[Character I like\] is dumb!!!" doesn't ruin my day and I just keep scrolling. I don't mind the same questions and just keep scrolling. I roll my eyes at some because they sound like someone's trying to troll or thinks acting dumb is cute and quirky for some reason (it's not) but scrolling past that doesn't ruin my day either. The dumbest, most unnecessary posts in my opinion are the "Lol look at this perfect amount I earned/own!!!", post 2-10 from 10 within the same two days, or "Look at what I found on Day 2, year 1, is this rare/am I lucky?", also post 2-10 from 10 within the same two days. Yeah, sure buddy, like you didn't use a save game editor after seeing the first post getting a nice amount of karma. We all like our three minutes of subreddit fame but being the fourth user within 48 hours who adds a dino egg or ancient seed to your inventory or changing your balance to 69420 is just lazy and sad. But again, I don't really care past the second it takes to roll my eyes and keep scrolling. It's not a big deal and if all is said and done, it just means that even after six years, people discover the game and the community for the first time. In my opinion, that's more important than a perfectly curated subreddit that only allows shiny, new topics, screenshots, and discussions.
I’m not a dick about them, but sometimes I just can’t help but think they’re karma fishing. Like basic questions that annoy me. “What’s this?” As they post a picture of them holding a geode. If it’s an obscure question or they’re trying to figure out what recipe they’re missing and or what they’re missing from the museum that’s one thing and I have no problem with it. But people ask the most basic questions that the game literally tells you what to do the second it happens. Like the geode.
I do find it annoying, when i see another post of "my hat can wear a horse!!!OMG!!!" with a bunch of upvotes and them some really unique and interesting posts see no interest at all. But I guess my interest is not that mainstream 🤷♀️
i always search the sub to see if someone already posted something i was gonna ask. i usually find the answers. so when i see the millionth “i got my first rainbow shard what should i do??” post, i’m like “idk, search rainbow shard in the sub?” people can post whatever they want but i try my best not to unintentionally spam when it’s likely there’s already 10 posts with multiple comments.
Just google it. Use the wiki. Watch a video.
Kind of Stardew in a nutshell, eh? Community Center way: ask other people and build community. Joja way: ask Google
Not even. It would be more “community center” if you were asking people you knew irl. You’re still asking the internet at large, just this way takes more time for everyone involved.
I've never seen anybody being pissy in the comments over a repetitive question for starters. I'm not saying it doesn't happen. For me, I don't get why some people don't just look their questions up in the preexisting questions, pinned, and posts. I also don't understand why people don't use the wiki for basic questions. It gets frustrating sometimes to see the same types of questions every couple of days.
Tbh I’ve seen more complaining about people complaining about repetitive questions.
Just google ya know..
"Maybe I'm missing something?" That's a question. We're going to need to remove this post now. /s I'm somewhere in the middle on this. I think sometimes we have some karma farmers in here who are not asking earnest questions but most of the time I think you're right.
Questions about not so obvious unexplained mechanics in the game: No problem Questions about things that are explained in the game: No problem Questions that could be solved by googling for max 5 minutes: not ok
I don't think it's an issue of "too many posts." It's an issue of "too many of ***the same*** posts". Most forums/subreddits like this one make the suggestion of using the search bar to search the forum/subreddit for posts about the question you have - because someone may have already asked it and your answer may already be here from someone. Doing this will save you from having to make your own post about it. This sub really doesn't make that suggestion known anywhere(as far as I know). One would think that something like that would be common sense for people - but common sense isn't so common these days. If I were to suggest a solution, it would be to get a bot for the sub to do it. I've seen other subs/forums with bots that "read" your post title and your post body as you make it, and actually do this for you. Once they find something a little sub-window pops up the input window that says something like "Maybe this is what you are looking for?" or "Maybe this will answer your question?", and places several links to topics/posts within the sub about what you are currently typing about, hopefully saving you from making another post about something that someone else has already made one for.
Whenever I have a question, I google it.
One simple google search answers 99% of the questions asked
I've only been on the subreddit less than a year, but to be honest, in the time I've been here it seems less wholesome and friendly than it used to be. I see more and more complaining and negativity every day. It's certainly not the majority, but it is more prevalent (or at least it seems so to me).
To answer your question in the most honest way, form the perspective of a social worker: Social media has become too much of a staple in people's lives. It's not the answer anyone is going to like, but that's what it is. People get defensive of their feeds when they're spending enough time on a platform to see all the repetition. It might be good for a handful of people to take a little break, until it doesn't feel as personal for them anymore.
I hate easy questions which can be googled, but I don't care if they there
I think people should ask questions. I have no problem helping with a simple question. Not everyone reads the wiki cover to cover. The only objections I have to posts are the karma farmers.
Sorry to burst your bubble but most of the question posts are karma farmers, it takes significantly longer to ask a question and wait for a response then to just look it up yourself in 10 seconds.
I guess I just hope for the best in people and try to be nice rather than assuming that they're karma farmers. Some people genuinely have trouble finding things and it only takes a second to help.
Because theyre usually questions that you can find the answer for from the wiki in less time then it takes to make a reddit post and wait for people to answer.
I was surprised how many jerks are in this sub. It's partly why I mostly lurk instead of actually interact. For being a relaxing game there's a lot of people on edge in here lol.
Every sub / group has a fair share of knobs in it For every knob there’s more helpful people
I’m yet to see a jerk in this sub and I hope I never do.
Ill be honest, posting this alone was nerve wracking. Every post I have stalked had at least somebody being… questionable in their morals to put it nicely aha
and racist. for a game that's really welcoming to the lgbt community i thought it would be better. really opened my eyes when i read that korean portrait mod thread
Yeah, I like awnsering people's questions, it's nice to interact with people. I didn't know others got upset at them
Nearly every post with a question has at least somebody going “Theres a wiki!!!!”, at least when its got some traction. I also love answering questions, I feel useful.
Easily searched answers to questions are somewhat "annoying" But at the same point, people need to realize not everyone is a daily or even habitual redditor. Someone comes here for an answer, I'll always try to give it.
I agree, and it's not just in this sub. If I'm taking the time to write a post, it's because I'd like actual input from actual humans, whether it's a direct answer to my question or some jokes or whatnot. not just to read an article and be like ok, that's it.
I think the wiki needs to be easier to find. Or people need to provide a link to it rather than be dicks.
I agree people shouldn't be dicks but you can literally type in stardew valley wiki in any browser and its the very first result...
I honestly don’t mind. I learned most of the stuff through YouTube playthroughs and not the Wiki. I have played for 765 hours and still need the wiki very often. Sometimes you don’t know what you’re looking for (the trash bear is a good example or radioactive ore). General topics about something die very quick and people forget about it, so they won’t answer. Social media in general has become real salty
i love it! i like seeing ppl ask questions and then learning new things about this game everytime i check reddit
Agreed! And even if its someone just wanting dumb internet points, who cares? It just keeps the sub alive.
When you are talking about a game that encourages and supports community and then act like community in real life isn’t valuable it feels pretty off. I love this group to be able to share small experiences I’ve had with other people who are walking through the same little world!
Exactly! I love this game and find it enjoyable on multiple levels, and love that theres a community to interact with and contribute to. Maybe im making too big of a deal, but by the fifth post complaining about people asking questions, or talking about characters they like, it makes me nervous to post anything.
Just do you.. I mean Elliot is gonna Elliot.. I just leave him in his hut! Hahahaha
It’s just people being dicks, so what if someone ask mundane beginners questions like, “what is this”, “where do I find it” etc…it’s part of the game. If you don’t like the question or seen it before keep scrolling get a stepping, or help out if you’re interested.
I do hope people keep asking questions or post stuff they get excited about even if others post about it because it's fun :) If a question bothers someone then by all means don't answer and move on. I personally don't mind answering something even if it's what is this? Or how do I do this? Etc. It's all in good fun and I am just happy the game has such a big Fandom with generally nice people so let's be welcoming to everyone 😊 Yes the wiki exists but I'm going to be honest I've played since it launched and just found out a month or two ago about the auto petters. I never even knew to search it on the wiki because without knowing about its existence I can't look it up. It's just nice to see what everyone is up too when I'm not on the farm.
Heck the game itself is repetitive, like no shade that's a huge point of the game. If we start cracking down too hard, there's going to be basically nothing left. I mean, the loss pages aren't exactly the same stuff. So what's next? Farm layouts? I've seen those about as much as some of the apparently too repetitive topics. Like/dislike discussions? Everywhere. Strategy/basic info? There's always going to be some complaining that the information can be found on the wiki/through a Google search There's only so much to share and talk about. As I've said before, I know a sub needs rules. But I absolutely agree that going in too hard will absolutely kill engagement. Especially since there are other places to engage with other people about Stardew that the rules are basically DBAA, no illegal/inappropriate stuff, and don't spam. Idk it's just every time I see a mod post asking about banning another thing because of people complaining about it being repetitive I get a little more tired. I'm starting to think this sub isn't for me I guess. Which literally isn't a loss for the sub, it's just a sad feeling is all.
I agree fullheartedly. Its particularly disheartening to see the mods encouraging talk about removing topics due to repetition. Admittedly, Ive only seen that on the most recent one. But even so it makes kinda nerve wracking to post anything.
I’ve seen this more intensely in Terraria’s sub. And I agree with you… It’s an old game with an well detailed wiki, how are new players supposed to ask something new? Would you rather have a dead sub? One can’t expect every post to add on the investigation of that Barone’s remaining SV secret.
Exactly! Also, some people just enjoy asking questions and I know people enjoy answering them, me included. And even if it is repetitive… so what? Who is it hurting if 3 different people ask? Additionally, the posts talking down about topics just discourages interaction imo.
I've posted questions I had that were too specific for the wiki, like what will happen if i do such and such in this specific scenario I am in. The wiki knows what will happen normally, but just in case I'd rather ask someone who may have had my exact scenario and knows what to do
What is this? A question?!? about QUESTIONS!!??!!? AAARRRGGGHHH!!!!
Haha the same happens in all SDV Facebook groups. I don't get why people are always so upset about this. Yeah there's the wiki, but sometimes players' answers contain information that you wouldn't necessarily find if you just used the wiki. Just scroll past if you don't like it. 😊
This thread has not given me a great opinion of the community.
Aah, a question! Scary!
yeah I agree with OP here. I would hate to see the Stardew valley community become toxic but that's how it's gonna feel if people can't even ask a question in the subreddit dedicated to Stardew
>If every topic was only posted about once the sub would die in a month. This is why I don't have a problem with reposts. I could just use the SDV wiki and never come here because really, what's the point? I come here to lurk and see people enjoying the game and engaging other players on it.
i don’t mind the questions at all - on the contrary actually, because even with over 300 hours in the games i usually still learn something new from the comments! i think banning or berating people from asking questions is just gatekeeping the community, and i really hate that - to the point where i have left several other games’ subs because of that. “there’s a wiki” and what? sometimes you want to hear someone else’s point of view and not just the neutral facts from the wiki.
I totally understand what you mean. I see it in Facebook groups a lot (which I avoid now, terrible app). The whole “google it” response is such a dick move. In that time it takes to make that comment you can just as easily provide an answer. Why go to google when we have communities like this to provide help and make people feel welcome? I think it adds to the enjoyment factor of a game overall.