[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Is Reddit Becoming Dumber?
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       Ask HN: Is Reddit Becoming Dumber?
        
       I realize that asking this probably makes me sound like an asshole,
       but bear with me for a second. When I joined Reddit, circa 2012, it
       had its shared of misinformed, poorly researched comments/posts
       like every other internet community, but as long as you stuck to
       niche subreddits it was mostly downvoted and contained.  As the
       years pass and I pick up new niche interests, my instinct is to
       turn to Reddit to find like minded individuals, but more and more
       increasingly I find that misinformed and poorly researched content
       is becoming the default and taking over the more quality content.
       Is this everyone else's experience with Reddit lately as well or
       I'm just becoming more of an asshole as I age? Genuinely curious
       what others think.
        
       Author : Mahn
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2022-02-23 21:29 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
       | WheelsAtLarge wrote:
       | I've always have had a hard time with the Reddit comments.
       | Misinformed is a given since we are all ready to give out
       | opinions at will. Right or wrong is unimportant to whomever posts
       | as long as they post what they think. That's all over social
       | media. I don't like it but it's part of the social media
       | environment. But the real pain to me is the never ending
       | wisecracks. Everyone wants to be funny. When the comments get
       | polluted with that then they are pretty useless. Reddit comments
       | are just full of it.
       | 
       | I don't think it's gotten any worse. It's just part of the make
       | up of the community. It's DNA.
        
       | bediger4000 wrote:
       | I think so, yes. Even in niche subreddits (arch linux, say) if
       | you ask a question, you'll only get stock answers, as if the
       | other person had done a quick web search, picked the top result
       | from google, and pasted it in.
        
       | qnsi wrote:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
        
         | Nextgrid wrote:
         | Doesn't help that the recent redesign explicitly encourages
         | that.
        
       | DaveFr wrote:
       | Reddit is bigger, and most communities get fall off as they get
       | bigger. The solution is to find smaller subreddits, and to
       | contribute the content you want to see.
        
       | breckenedge wrote:
       | No, it's nostalgia. There's a natural tendency to see things this
       | way. You may be smarter and more experienced as you get older,
       | but that doesn't mean Reddit gets dumber.
        
       | rootsudo wrote:
       | Yes, new generation of people online, older generation aged out.
       | It's not you, reddit changed.
       | 
       | It's time to move on and look back at your decade of use and ask
       | what you really missed out in terms of community involvement and
       | how the web has changed. Forums are dead. :(
        
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