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To me a website that grows too much is dead. Reddit has reached that phase now. Started out great but has turned in to Facebook
by ndnxhs 8y ago
To me a website that grows too much is dead. Reddit has reached that phase now. Started out great but has turned in to Facebook
- potta_coffee 8y agoI agree, I check in there now and again but I find the quality of discussion to be very low.
- jmoore53 8y agoFrom the article: > Technology can enhance discussion. Nested comments do, for example. But I'd rather use a site with primitive features and smart, nice users than more advanced one whose users were idiots or trolls. I'd agree and say I don't think reddit has the quality of discussion in posts or comments that it used to.
- skunkworker 8y agoReally depends on the subreddit. On the front page ones, sure. But you get into the enthusiast and smaller ones you can still get a lot of high quality discussion.
- rovyko 8y agoI find the best subs fit all or most of the following characteristics: 1. No politics 2. Nobody trying to sell you something or promote themselves 3. Based around a single, external topic, usually an established IP Examples: r/Factorio, r/asoif,
- freedomben 8y agoYep. The moderators also make or break it. When immature people (especially seems to be a lot of teenagers) get ahold of the mod powers and go on power trips (which happens surprisingly often), it's the end of that subreddit.
- jplayer01 8y agoThere are plenty of great subreddits though. Just because the big ones are crap doesn't mean they all are.
- mamcx 8y ago> Nobody Goes There Anymore, It’s Too Crowded https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/08/29/too-crowded/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/08/29/too-crowded/