[lvass]

Reddit was great for the brief period of time after internet search engines like Google nosedived in quality thanks to blogspam, and before companies realized people were relying on Reddit for reading honest opinions. Whenever there's some economic interest involved in a Reddit thread (like product recommendations), companies are now flooding it with disguised ads, which is low quality content like all ads.

[pixl97]

This is the curse of all public forums. I would add that the ability for bots and spammers to flood forums is getting easier and ads are many times less noticeable so the barrier to entry has lowered and we get even more crap with time.

About the only places that don't get completely ate up with it are so dark and foul your risking other facets of your mental health by visiting them.

[Gustomaximus]

I think its more than ads. The ability to have conversation has largely gone. It's seems so full of hatred and anger now vs people posting interesting information or politely joking about. While there were always toxic subs they tended to exist in their own universe for people that wanted that. I really miss the days of polite discussion, joking about bacon and grammar nazis.

While reddit still has great points, I feel there needs to be a new reddit that has its core rules based on courtesy and some kind of intelligence/knowledge test before people can comment, and have to repeat if they can't follow basic polite and value add conversation.