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Re:Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking thei... by marginalia_nu on Friday June 16, 2023 @05:05AM (#36353589)
I think it's also worth noting that the actual contributing members on message boards is a tiny minority[1][2][3]. Activity appears to follow a Pareto distribution. The members that not only contribute, but regularly contribute quality content is a minority within that minority.

The vast majority is scrolling and blowing air out their nose, maybe voting, maybe very occasionally leaving a comment. From a monetization sense, it may look tempting to focus on retaining that passive minority, but what risks happening is a dead sea effect where it enters a cycle of contributors leaving because contributions are deteriorating in quality. That can be nearly impossible to reverse.

[1] https://jennchen.com/blog/business/were-all-lurkers/

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222436334_The_Top_F...

[3] https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000129213/10112828...

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Re:Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking thei... by amadeuspagel on Friday June 16, 2023 @06:31AM (#36354291)
Yes of course. And that tiny minority of course shares your preferences about UI design.
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Re:Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking thei... by marginalia_nu on Friday June 16, 2023 @06:38AM (#36354348)
That minority makes the different demands on UI, since they use the site in a different way from the passive users.

Case in point, if you're rarely ever contributing it doesn't really even matter if the entire website crashes when you paste into the rich text editor so you lose everything you've written. Which I guess is why this bug is still not properly fixed on all browsers after being broken as hell for 4 years, including for long times on Chrome(?!) [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/search/?q=paste&restrict_sr=1

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Re:Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking thei... by badwolf on Friday June 16, 2023 @10:14AM (#36356898)
I think this is one of the big reasons TikTok has a completely separate app for creators (CapCut)

It allows them to continue to add creation features and a creators experience, without bogging down the main app consumers are using to mindlessly scroll while pooping.

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Re:Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking thei... by terribleperson on Saturday June 17, 2023 @02:22AM (#36367816)
Wait, is that why that awful editor locks up on me? Pasting? I always just give up on using it after it locks up and hadn't done it enough times to make the connection.
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Re:Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking thei... by badwolf on Friday June 16, 2023 @10:12AM (#36356873)
Perhaps this is also one of the reasons Reddit doesn't take action against spammers and repost bots that take popular posts and comments from <time> ago and report them verbatim later and get thousands and thousands of upvotes.

Nice way to fake content creation long enough to shove your IPO out the door and exit before the house of cards starts falling apart.

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Re:Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking thei... by gigel82 on Friday June 16, 2023 @10:45AM (#36357393)
Let's hope so :) I now actively want Reddit to blow up.
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