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Re:Reddit can't build a better search engine by pydry on Thursday February 17, 2022 @08:59AM (#30373069)
This used to work well but moderators have "professionalized" and nowadays will viciously stamp out any kind of separarism.

Creating a forum has never been hard. Attracting people is.

I would imagine this would get worse as money corrupts reddit the same way money corrupted google.

Whomever moderates /r/camping probably isnt doing it for free.

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Re:Reddit can't build a better search engine by valar_m on Thursday February 17, 2022 @09:35AM (#30373457)
> This used to work well but moderators have "professionalized" and nowadays will viciously stamp out any kind of separarism.

How would they go about doing that? I see new, competing subreddits being created all the time. Like, what could a mod do to stop me if I wanted to create a new competing sub?

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Re:Reddit can't build a better search engine by pydry on Thursday February 17, 2022 @09:53AM (#30373657)
Censor posts even mentioning it in competing subs they moderate?

Maybe i wasnt clear about that.

Even if everybody from an existing subreddit would move to a better one they wont if they dont hear about it.

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