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by godelski 1850 days ago
I think this is inflation. There's plenty of subreddits that were great for awhile then just became over run with stuff like that. I think because a lot of people are more casual members and just casually upvote a lot. But to be honest, there's still not that much great material in the first place. Maybe there's a way to separate out these groups. E.g. noobs and technical members. These people have different needs and wants. Technical members should help noobs (wizards don't exist without noobs) but maybe all technical members don't want to do that and only want to see what other technical users are doing. A niche topic stops being niche when it gains too many users and I think that harms the community when members are looking for said niche community.