[PeterStuer]

Sounds like they optimised for a select 1% class of self appointed gatekeepers rather than the broad user base. Classic mistake of nearly every defunct social site.

[ceejayoz]

To a certain extent, you have to. Same reasons Wikipedia has a core clique of editors; they do a lot of the work.

It worked beautifully for quite a while. I don't think anyone anticipated ChatGPT when planning it all out.