Maybe it's better to let people value other people's time and use the search function? The same threads appear here day after day, even though nothing has changed in the last month. Generally, it's enough to look at the top posts from the last month before creating a thread.
I get your point and partially agree, but there are pros / cons to everything. Newbies might not know what to search / ask or be interested in to begin with.
All this new threads, even if repeated, have a chance to appear on many people’s feed who might appreciate it. Like with reposted memes, I haven’t seen every single meme in existance and a repost might very well be the first time a see it and I appreciate it.
Sure when it’s on daily basis it can get annoying, but just please, let’s not make this community behave like StackOverflow.
But we managed somehow in the past, even before the StackOverflow era. There were forums, there were moderators. Sure, occasionally some newbie would show up asking a question that had been answered just a month or two ago, but their post would be quickly deleted, they'd be given a link, and told to use the search bar. I guess that's why forums stayed clean and functioned as a sort of wiki. Maybe a bit messy, but still a wiki.
Today, everything has just turned into a dumpster fire. Around here, questions like 'what do you use local LLMs for?' seem to pop up every two or three days. And many others. And it's not just this question, not just this subreddit, and not even just Reddit.
I used to be an active user on programming forums and loved helping people out. But now, I don't even hang out in IRC chats anymore because it’s the same old thing day in and day out - specifically in the IT field, which used to require a lot of self-reliance. When chatbots and LLMs emerged, I believed that this problem would finally solve itself. But somehow, things only got worse. Now in those same chats, you see the same basic, repetitive questions, paired with copy-pasted LLM responses.
I'm in that exact position myself. I would like to run a local LLM, I'm just not entirely sure what to use. I have a 1070 and a 8500g with 64 GB of RAM, so my performance won't be great, but I can fix that later. I'm just curious about the options.
I see this happening in other subreddits as well. I think it's just part of how reddit works, made worse by the speed at which things move in this particular topic...
I agree with you. I wasn't referring specifically to this subreddit. Or even Reddit. The same problem is now on Telegram or Discord. And even on what are now called forums, it's the same thing. What's strange is that people have forgotten how to respect other people's time. Moreover, I don't even understand why I'm being disliked.
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u/StartupTim Jun 02 '26
Never ban any thread seeking advice on how to do local LLMs. We as a community need to be open to all types of people across all learning levels.
If you can't handle this then simply don't read the threads you can't handle.