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Again, the user does not care. The user sees blatant racism and sexism being tolerated, and in some cases celebrated, think the place is full of that, and leave

• derefr 11y ago
  Oh, I certainly do see how it's a problem; but it will be a problem with anything trying to compete with, or replace, Reddit just as much. I'm not too concerned with whether Reddit lives or dies; that's up to their PR department. I'm concerned, instead, with the user attitude of attempting to move on to the "next big community" to avoid the problems with the last. If Reddit dies, and the thing after it dies, and the thing after that dies—I hope we eventually stop and look at what we're doing and realize that there's no point in this "grass is greener" pursuit of a utopian community, when these problems eventually face every community at scale. At some point, I hope we just sit down and try to maintain the community we've got (turning it into a society), rather than thinking that rebuilding it with slightly different rules but the same microcosm of people will help.
  • intopieces 11y ago
    >At some point, I hope we just sit down and try to maintain the community we've got (turning it into a society), rather than thinking that rebuilding it with slightly different rules but the same microcosm of people will help. I think this is accomplished with the ability to create new Subreddits. To my mind, the best way to separate the nasty parts of Reddit with the profitable ones is heavy moderation for the defaults, free reign for the non-defaults, and charge money for access to private subreddits. If a particular subreddit draws too much controversy, force it private.