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> I bet you noticed a change on the comments themselves. I guess. Everything on the internet has changed in those 15 years though. It doesn't seem fair to att

• johnnyanmac 3y ago
  > It doesn't seem fair to attribute most of that to Reddit the product. So when everything becomes crap, it become acceptable? I guess Digg was simply ahead of its time before it can capture the market that would resonate with the low quality imageboard style of threads. > There are still plenty of deep threads on Reddit if you know where to look. The last time I read a chain deeper than maybe, 6 comments that I didn't regret was years ago. But in all fairness, most of those deep deep threads are just two people trying to get the last word in. So it wasn't a high percentage even before the shift.
  • pgwhalen 3y ago
    > But in all fairness, most of those deep deep threads are just two people trying to get the last word in. So it wasn't a high percentage even before the shift. Yeah, it's worth pointing out that the website you're on has functionality that actively discourages deep threads for that reason.