The level of conversation on Reddit didn't decline because the founders were apathetic. They still care a lot about the site. But they are committed not to ce

The level of conversation on Reddit didn't decline because the founders were apathetic. They still care a lot about the site. But they are committed not to censoring anything, either comments or stories, and that tends to make the site something of a free-for-all. A massively successful free-for-all, incidentally: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/reddit.com+ycombinator.com/?metric=uv http://siteanalytics.compete.com/reddit.com+ycombinator.com/... For most users the change in the character of Reddit couldn't accurately be called "decline," or their traffic wouldn't still be growing so fast. It just seems like a decline to the small minority that includes us.