[SirFatty]

But it gets voted up by the people... so it must be valuable to someone.

I have the same sentiment about Slashdot btw, now a ghost of its former self.

[byearthithatius]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFgcqB8-AxE

Not all people. But look what happened to Reddit. Started as mostly coders now its slowly being turned into another content machine.

[mcphage]

> But look what happened to Reddit. Started as mostly coders now its slowly being turned into another content machine.

I think Reddit managed that best. Getting rid of the "default" subreddit seemed like a dumb idea when they did it, but looking back on the effect, it allowed Reddit to exist as a thousand different, distinct, often disjoint communities, rather than trying to push everyone into a single place together.