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DJWalnut  ·  3431 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why I left Reddit

>Once you hit massive scale, there's not really a single design philosophy that maintains a consistently quality community. It always falls into the throes of control and despair. It will come to everything, including Hubski.

I wonder if it's related to the eternal september effect. I wonder if a similar site would stay good forever (or at least a lot longer) if account creation was strictly controlled (maybe allow 10% growth in accounts/month) in order to assimilate people into the general culture.