I’m of the opinion that Reddit will become incrementally worse going forward, most users are not bothered right now because the whole API fiasco affects mods and not them, but as usual they miss the forest for the tree. The site will go for the users and creators next, but it won’t be like this, it’ll be one tiny annoying feature at a time to avoid mass abandonment. I’m already looking for alternatives, such as this one, in preparation, but most will put up with anything just to keep consuming the same old content.
There are more potentially interesting websites than I have time to spend. I’m taking the same attitude to Reddit that I take for StackOverflow and Wikipedia. I’ll read their content, especially if it comes up in search, but I’m not wading through the cesspool to try and contribute anything.
I don’t even think it needs to go for users and creators next; making moderation harder will have plenty of impact on its own. Many people seem to think mods randomly remove crap in some weird power trip. The reality is most are busy removing spam, abuse, shitposts, and the 5th submission of the same news link that’s still on the front page. Once unpaid mods start leaving they’ll have to implement automods that’ll just suck as they always do. The quality of every sub is going to go to hell pretty quickly.
I’m of the opinion that Reddit will become incrementally worse going forward, most users are not bothered right now because the whole API fiasco affects mods and not them, but as usual they miss the forest for the tree. The site will go for the users and creators next, but it won’t be like this, it’ll be one tiny annoying feature at a time to avoid mass abandonment. I’m already looking for alternatives, such as this one, in preparation, but most will put up with anything just to keep consuming the same old content.
There are more potentially interesting websites than I have time to spend. I’m taking the same attitude to Reddit that I take for StackOverflow and Wikipedia. I’ll read their content, especially if it comes up in search, but I’m not wading through the cesspool to try and contribute anything.
I don’t even think it needs to go for users and creators next; making moderation harder will have plenty of impact on its own. Many people seem to think mods randomly remove crap in some weird power trip. The reality is most are busy removing spam, abuse, shitposts, and the 5th submission of the same news link that’s still on the front page. Once unpaid mods start leaving they’ll have to implement automods that’ll just suck as they always do. The quality of every sub is going to go to hell pretty quickly.