The small and good ones all go to shit eventually. Eventually the karma-addicts figure out how to pander for points and turn the subreddit into a flanderizatio

The small and good ones all go to shit eventually. Eventually the karma-addicts figure out how to pander for points and turn the subreddit into a flanderization of itself, using a torrent of low-effort nominally on-topic posts intentioned only to be upvoted. The fundamental dynamics of reddit result in a 'game' where karma addicts use low-effort content to actively sabotage communities. The only way to avoid this is to keep a subreddit small and obscure, balanced on a knife edge between too-obscure to survive and popular enough to attract karma farmers. A good and small subreddit exists in an unstable equilibrium on borrowed time.