Having more people is a blessing and a curse. Same with having a tight nit group of people. With more people, the pro is that there is more activity. With this

Having more people is a blessing and a curse. Same with having a tight nit group of people. With more people, the pro is that there is more activity. With this, you have an effective mechanical turk of some sort since there are so many people to get help from and one of those people can be very useful. The con is that conversations are overloaded, so many try to post one liners to achieve top listing status in a thread. This discourages those with better experience and insight to make a comment since they have to spend a long time on a comment only to have it buried and ignored. The other con is that only pop submissions or submissions that take the least amount of time to consume (r/pics) have the most upmods. Take Hacker News. I remember when it was like reading a programmer's mailing list. Now with so many people, the most we can relate to are tech gossip. With less people conversations are more focused and detailed. The con is you have to be lucky to have experienced individuals to provide better insight. Still, don't quote me on this stuff. This is something a social scientist can explain better. Nonetheless, complaining about the degradation of an online community isn't really something to get worked up about (and this is from a guy with a signed reddit bobble-head and a first issue reddit sticker). Entropy is a fact of nature. It's like a group of friends who had such a fun time together for a certain era then end up hating each other. Or like Forrest Gump who reminded me as a child that how your life is setup now isn't how it will always be. I cried when I saw that movie as a child for I knew my care-free childhood life was gonna be over anytime now and...shit, I just realized that happend.