Congrats to Reddit and YC. An example of the adage that all successful businesses succeed despite themselves and why product market fit is so important. I rem

Congrats to Reddit and YC. An example of the adage that all successful businesses succeed despite themselves and why product market fit is so important. I remember the early days.. I deleted that early account b/c reddit was so addictive. And it arguably still is. I remember receiving a few replies from Aaron. He was a kid who was living in the future way ahead of his time. I migrated here though when reddit diversified subreddits.. kinda like when Facebook opened up to the world reddit became less useful for conversation. And I've gone through a few accounts/handles for the same reasons here as reddit. Downvotes and even distributed slashdot moderation work to discourage conversation and ultimately engagement unless you garner a critical mass to break out of the algorithm. I imagine post engagement follows Zipf's law. This probably explains why people buy upvotes and followers etc... No site is immune to this as far as I can tell. Niche subbreddits help but then those tend to be actively moderated. Very specific forums also tend to be better for specific things (like car forums). Good advice is to never read the comments to the things you post and I guess that means replies as well :) .. It's a weird dynamic because what all humans really need is to be heard.. And yet magic internet points are not quite the correct filter. Maybe AI will save us.