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> But really congratulations to them for having an almost 20 year old social network that still gets avalanches of highschool kids coming in. Yes, congratulati
by antisthenes 4y ago
> But really congratulations to them for having an almost 20 year old social network that still gets avalanches of highschool kids coming in.
Yes, congratulations to them.
Unfortunately for them, high school kids rarely have any money to pay for the things being advertised on reddit, so their business model still doesn't work, because older folks don't want to sift through a shitty UI/UX experience with a bunch of high-schoolers who are posting mostly nonsense.
There are some nice subs that are excepted from this, mostly by staying small and well moderated by old-timers, but these small subs don't really pay the bills from what I understand.
- kristopolous 4y agoWhat we really need is a reboot of USENET in some magical way where there's no incentive to spam + micro nonzero cost to give them a reason not to, something like 100 posts for $0.01. The reality is you'll get weird spam posts even if you block links with just basically garbage text just because people can. So add an irrelevant cost to put it above zero. Here's an example of the spam for no reason: I've got a vintage site for a project http://bootstra386.com http://bootstra386.com with a vintage guestbook. Instead of filtering out spam, I filter it over to something I called spambook so you can feast on the glory of all the spam bots postings - it's so excessive and ridiculous - actually I think it's just erroring out from too much memory now. I'll fix it in a bit