"It would just be mob rule and it would have all the problems Reddit has: terrible people controlling the conversation" that's ironic, because the overwhelming

"It would just be mob rule and it would have all the problems Reddit has: terrible people controlling the conversation" that's ironic, because the overwhelming groupthink that had developed at Metafilter was the reason that I finally deleted my account. Not just abandoned it, I actually went through the account deletion process and never looked back. Plus, it looked like reddit was really taking a chunk out of them and they didn't want to admit it. Articles were showing up later on MF, and it just wasn't very interesting to me anymore.