They’d still be going down paths like mandatory logins and aggressive bot blocking, but I think it’d be different if they still had the trust of most users. The

They’d still be going down paths like mandatory logins and aggressive bot blocking, but I think it’d be different if they still had the trust of most users. The moderator community was something rare and special — a ton of skilled people working pro bono to make their site a community — and I don’t think it will ever come back short of a C-level sea change. Most of those people were the front line of defense against slop.