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Re:The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos by marginalia_nu on Sunday June 26, 2022 @07:07AM (#31882833)
I think part of the problem is that reddit seems to really aggressively push for subreddit growth. This artificially creates an "eternal september" almost everywhere. I'm not really sure why they are pushing this so hard, if it's to show investors how fast reddit is growing or something?

But bottom line is that perhaps the single most disruptive event an online community can experience is a large sustained influx of new members. It just will not be the same before and after.

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Re:The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos by richbell on Sunday June 26, 2022 @07:28AM (#31882983)
> This artificially creates an "eternal september" almost everywhere.

This is also why the 'powermods' are so damaging: without proper, attentive moderation an influx of new users invariably leads to a decline in quality.

Half the subreddits in /r/all are so homogeneous that it's impossible to tell if a post was in /r/muderedbywords, /r/nextfuckinglevel, /r/damnthatsinteresting, /r/unexpected, etc.

And that's not to mention all the bots...

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