[castillar76]

I’ve had similar experiences in other subreddits, yep. Not so much things being removed, though. Instead I ask nicely for help with learning something and get fried with “you’re doing this all wrong, lrn2notsuck noob” responses, or I spend a good chunk of time on a thoughtful response to a question and it gets no votes or responses at all.

Some subreddits are notable exceptions, though—-those are the ones I’ll actually miss if this thing collapses. By and large, they’re small, very focused subreddits on particular topics; seems like once a subreddit reaches a certain size it just collapses into the above mess of behaviors.

[carlosjobim]

Isn't that the old Linux joke? Ask nicely for help with Linux and people will tell you to go pound sand. Instead say "Linux sucks because it can't do this..." and tons of people will show up saying "No, you are wrong! Linux can do it, you just need to..."