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I think the flip side to this is that the communities are becoming so large now that they aren't really a community. I sometimes go on the /r/UK and the level o
by slivym 8y ago
I think the flip side to this is that the communities are becoming so large now that they aren't really a community. I sometimes go on the /r/UK and the level of discussion gets lower and lower as the community dissolves. Rather than getting to know people everyone is just shouting into the void - unaware of who anyone else is.
- killjoywashere 8y agoI think this is more associated with the fact that all communities (real communities) are small. Try a more focused interest group. /r/pathology, for example, is only a few thousand folks, mainly people working at the graduate or post-doctoral level.
- jcims 8y agoIf you tack /comments on the end of smaller subreddits you get a vbulletin-like effect of bumping the most recent conversation to the top. This can be useful if you’re jonesing for a debate but nothing’s moving.
- dageshi 8y agor/unitedkingdom is a special kind of terrible because it's essentially all cynicism and politics all the time. It got to the point where a lot of people left for r/casualuk which is basically politics free.
- duxup 8y agoThe advantage to Reddit is the ability for other communities to just pop up and potentially fill gaps. Usually once a sub hits a certain level of activity... I leave and look for another one ;)
- citizenkeen 8y agoCommunity fracture is a huge feature of reddit. Something becomes to big, it spins off in to a new community. I rarely go to /r/rpg or /r/programming, but I love /r/genesysrpg and /r/haskell.