Re:Discord is opening the monetization floodgates with micro...
by esafak on Thursday June 22, 2023 @02:23PM
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That disrespects the other people's time. The rational thing for them to do is to disengage and let the lazy people fend for themselves. Which means the community becomes deprived of experts, and people who value their time, possibly becoming useless and dying. As an adolescent I might have put up with it. No way on earth I'm doing that as an adult.
As you suggest, the user base evolves as a result of product choices.
Re:Discord is opening the monetization floodgates with micro...
by johnnyanmac on Friday June 23, 2023 @12:31AM
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>The rational thing for them to do is to disengage and let the lazy people fend for themselves.
No one ever called humans rational beings. Of course that's the proper behavior to instill in a quality, knowledgeable internet user and foster a high quality community.
We lost that battle decades ago, however. We're also losing the battle where it is okay to gatekeep lazy people. I argue the opposite: the product evolved based on user affordances, which is typically a good UI/UX paradigm to follow. If people are going to be lazy, lower the barrier of entry, and leave any curation to each server's community and moderators.
And if we're being honest: most experts aren't sharing their information on social media. Not all of it, at least. Certainly not in public communities.
But normal users probably do not care about any of that. You literally have people come in and ask a question that was literally asked and answered in the previous reply. People want an instant reply, they do not want to google for an answer. And the nature of the chat makes that possible.
Plus search engines not indexing things is probably seen as a benefit by some community owners. For example people who run private course communities or small groups want their communities open only to invited people.
Something else to think about is how discord differs, it is a chat app that transformed into a forum. While reddit has been trying to do the reverse. Maybe more people want a easy to chat app with some forum features tagged on, rather than the reverse.