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by johnywalks
1452 days ago
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Same thing happened with Medium. Initially it had thoughtful content and once the platform became more popular, it also attracted worse content. Typical articles: How to build and Android app. 1. Learn android 2. Find and idea. 3. Build the app. Thanks for reading this. Follow me on Twatter etc.... They basically baited you to open the link with an interesting title and the content had no substance. |
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Back in the good old days, forums typically heavily restricted self-promotion (even more so when it’s for commercial gain). Constantly shilling for your own website/Twitter/etc would end up earning you a ban.
I don’t understand why these social media platforms don’t enforce the same. Not only will this discourage this kind of crap but it would also benefit them as it would avoid people driving traffic away from the site (or having to pay for a paid commercial plan in order to do so).