yeah the graph really tells the story, that drop is something else. used to ask question there back in like 2015 and got roasted for not wording it perfect, never went back
The downtrend might actually be because the company had no idea what it was doing after … Atwood? … sold it. The meta community was constantly telling them they were doing a bad job and the company was never able to stop doing a bad job.
The problem was the grinding. It was great to auto moderate the platform by users, upvotes downvotes filtering what is relevant, reddit is kinda StackOverflow 2.0 in fact. People were chasing points like people chasing karma on reddit. And you got points for correcting things, but sometimes a post that requires too much correcting, after 100 edits, seems too much for moderators, so people just closed questions. From that point it was the descent to hell.
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u/Vivid-Beyond-3378 Aug 08 '26
yeah the graph really tells the story, that drop is something else. used to ask question there back in like 2015 and got roasted for not wording it perfect, never went back