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Any discussion forum that grows gets worse. Huh! I hadn’t thought about it in such stark terms before, and I’d like to disagree, but there may be something in
by iainmerrick 6y ago
Any discussion forum that grows gets worse.
Huh! I hadn’t thought about it in such stark terms before, and I’d like to disagree, but there may be something in that.
Is that an original thought, or did you get it from somewhere? It sounds like something that should be an eponymous law.
- CydeWeys 6y agoEternal September.
- iainmerrick 6y agoAh, yes! But that applied to the internet as a whole, rather than individual forums.
- CydeWeys 6y agoIt does apply to specific discussion venues. Originally it was about Usenet groups, not the Internet as a whole. It applies broadly to any forum-like venue.
- Semaphor 6y agoWhile it’s similar to Eternal September, it’s not exactly the same. It’s more that the more users there are, the more average things become. And I have a pretty low opinion of the average person. It’s very visible on Reddit. Large subreddits have either very strict moderation, or they are low quality (I’m excepting picture subs here because they work differently)