Just like digg back then after they switched the format.
Reddit keeps forgetting they depend on the users, including the mods.
Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible
Album@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Reddit is already dead, the corporate AI shell is all that remains amongst some folk who dont realize everyone is a bot or an idiot.
/r/android used to be one of the hottest subs - it’s literally just posts from the same 2 OPs linking to their professional news articles.
ogeist@lemmy.world 1 month ago
aniki@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Before the API change I was looking into making an extension for RES that would automatically block any user account above a configurable ratio of posts to comments. It was BANANAS how much content was from bots on the front page even on smaller subs.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That would have been a lot like how I remember message boards being back in the day, (late 90’s early 2000’s) and honestly I don’t think I like it. People like me (with both low number of comments and posts) wouldn’t be able to reach that bar to entry. I get the bots wouldn’t either, but that still eliminates human users as well and I don’t know if that’s a good thing.
aniki@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Huh? What message boards in the 90s counted karma?
atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They counted comments and the number of upvotes (or what have you) in an attempt to stop trolls and bad actors. If you didn’t have enough comments you couldn’t post anything to the message boards and therefore could really engage with the message oars above a certain level. I remember that some also used to limit the number of comments any one user account could make per day, especially new users.