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Because 99% of what people submit is crap. Any insufficiently moderated subreddit quickly devolves into spam, low effort content and memes. And when big events

Because 99% of what people submit is crap. Any insufficiently moderated subreddit quickly devolves into spam, low effort content and memes. And when big events happen you'll have 20 people submitting the same thing, then 15 follow-up posts about "Why am I being censored?" Reddit is kinda crap at deduplication. It compares URLs exactly, and still doesn't know that youtube.com and youtu.be are the same place, or that the junk appended to a youtube URL is mostly irrelevant.

tourmalinetaco 3y ago
>Any insufficiently moderated subreddit quickly devolves into spam, low effort content and memes. Any sufficiently large subreddit, regardless of moderation. Once a subreddit reaches critical mass, its inundated with low quality posts as mentioned. One can argue that is due to poor moderation, which would be part of it, but I find it’s mostly just the Reddit “culture” to create stale memes of the same formats but with subreddit-specific things tacked on, instead of interesting discussion. The only times I don’t see this is in subreddits where posting is reserved to people who have to prove their worth in some degree, which naturally isn’t an ideal system either.
- dale_glass 3y ago
  There are rare exceptions, like r/AskHistorians, where mods rule it with an iron fist. But that takes serious dedication, organization and effort, so it's rare to see.
adhesive_wombat 3y ago
It seems strange to me that things like Reddit, Twitter, YouTube etc seem to be treated as inviolable constants, both by users and by their owners. It's kind of taken for granted that they just fell from the sky like that and need to be worked around. Which, yes, I suppose they kind of do, and even a million people wanting something is a rounding error, but it's very different to collaborative projects.

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Because 99% of what people submit is crap. Any insufficiently moderated subreddit quickly devolves into spam, low effort content and memes. And when big events

by dale_glass 3y ago

tourmalinetaco 3y ago
>Any insufficiently moderated subreddit quickly devolves into spam, low effort content and memes. Any sufficiently large subreddit, regardless of moderation. Once a subreddit reaches critical mass, its inundated with low quality posts as mentioned. One can argue that is due to poor moderation, which would be part of it, but I find it’s mostly just the Reddit “culture” to create stale memes of the same formats but with subreddit-specific things tacked on, instead of interesting discussion. The only times I don’t see this is in subreddits where posting is reserved to people who have to prove their worth in some degree, which naturally isn’t an ideal system either.
- dale_glass 3y ago
  There are rare exceptions, like r/AskHistorians, where mods rule it with an iron fist. But that takes serious dedication, organization and effort, so it's rare to see.
adhesive_wombat 3y ago
It seems strange to me that things like Reddit, Twitter, YouTube etc seem to be treated as inviolable constants, both by users and by their owners. It's kind of taken for granted that they just fell from the sky like that and need to be worked around. Which, yes, I suppose they kind of do, and even a million people wanting something is a rounding error, but it's very different to collaborative projects.