That’s just community age. It starts out vibrant and then you get Eternal September and the resulting backlash causes all but the most crotchety to go elsewhere

That’s just community age. It starts out vibrant and then you get Eternal September and the resulting backlash causes all but the most crotchety to go elsewhere. I think maybe only metafilter has protected itself from this. Presumably the cost to play does the trick. This is a class of problem where the community becomes navel gazing and spends most of its time litigating the rules. It was a classic thing to happen to old forums.