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This often comes out whenever a post about Reddit hits the front page, but I beg to disagree. I think the ratio of quality/to quantity has slid in the wrong dir

• bh42222 15y ago
  I think the ratio of quality/to quantity has slid in the direction that popularity will always push it in. What's interesting about reddit, is that's a way to preserve the quality. Reddit is like a hipster dog chasing its own tail. As the popularity grows the quality keeps moving to ever newer sub-reddits.
  • llambda 15y ago
    The problem there is that the quality a person is seeking becomes obfuscated, continually shifting into new, unknown subreddits in order to prevent the decay of content. Maybe there's no better way to do this (yet) but if the information a given individual viewed as quality were easily accessible it'd make the concept a lot more interesting to me as opposed to the level of misdirection subreddits seem to manifest.
  • cynest 15y ago
    While there is truth to this argument, like llambda I feel that the ever increasing search for quality subreddits leaves much to be desired. I don't like going to a site and then spending a large portion of the time avoiding a large and growing percentage of the user base. There's also the problem that most of the subreddits I like might not be able to produce a high quality version due to a high content established competitor.