You're absolutely right and this problem is getting worse and worse. As one example, Twitter has this concept of "Topics", which you can kind of see as a sub c

You're absolutely right and this problem is getting worse and worse. As one example, Twitter has this concept of "Topics", which you can kind of see as a sub community. Take a topic like "Web development" and the grifters are constantly on top. They know exactly how to work the algorithms. They'll post something stupid like "HTML is not a programming language" to get maximum engagement. There's a rich playbook of such engagement patterns to win the game. And they do win. Same situation on Medium, where there's "Categories". They're all gamed and corrupted like this. The value adding voices are not heard, and will therefore give up.