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the_doctor  ·  4349 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What causes a Community Content website to die out?

I think the term that Reddit is dying is being thrown around too much and is far from the truth. In fact you said it yourself, there are

    8 Million unique users a day
. Reddit isn't dying but instead is going through a drastic change in content. Instead of being the thoughtful community-orientated website that is used to be, it has now morphed into a meme-orientated community mostly dominated by people posting overdone jokes and puns for karma, this is especially evident in the default sub-reddits where the communities are largest. So, Reddit isn't dying, its growing, but the content that used to dominate the front page has now mostly disappeared and been replaced by content, unfortunately, not that much different from what you see on facebook and 9gag. To use reddit as it used to be requires one to discover the back-end subreddits where there are intelligent discussions and an absence of circlejerky content.

As for Hubski becoming reddit 2.0, I don't think it'll happen anytime soon or even at all. Since Hubski revolves around a tight-knit community who mostly prefers intelligent, interesting discussions to the classic meme it'll be difficult for any normal number of reddit users to transform this site to be their own little reddit.





CdeB313  ·  4349 days ago  ·  link  ·  

But would you think if enough of the redditors who provide the the good content, interesting discussions, quality posts and such came here and thus bring the good content with them drag the rest with them.

user-inactivated  ·  4349 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's a worry of mine. It's already known that Hubski is making a few waves in Reddit. I fear that it might become Reddit 2.0 because of the people coming here to check it out and become "internet famous" on some other, "smaller" site, with less people to compete with.

That said, I don't want to sound high and mighty about it. People shouldn't be biased against. And, it's not really up to individuals to decide the content of a user generated content website, it's about what the majority wants and likes. Hopefully though, if the influx of people comes, the content the hivemind likes will be good.

CdeB313  ·  4349 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We can only hope. I wonder if the people who post the stuff we complain about even bother coming here at the moment as hubski is just too small for the time being and there is not enough emphasis put on memes and pics ( thank god) for them to have an interest.

user-inactivated  ·  4349 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes, as I explained to possessedcow, I meant in terms of content rather than users! Otherwise I would be contradicting myself.

Yes, that's the thing I see as changing reddit. The fact that people can use cheap and easy memes and content to generate points that are, well, pointless. This self-made competitive element drives the content to become more efficient, i.e: easy to manufacture and replicate. It's like the economy of the internet.

I hope what you said about Hubski is true, I've not been here for long at all but I already like the content and the users.

That said, do you think content change is the main reason for the downfall of community content sites? I discussed earlier that Digg's downfall was it's design change and subsequent feeling of "betrayal" by it's users. Do you think redditors will start migrating to avoid content, or will it largely become a "memebase" kind of deal? I have to agree about smaller subs though, I've since unsubbed from most large subs and concentrated on the smaller ones. More community based.

the_doctor  ·  4349 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah sorry about that, I didn't see it beforehand.

I think change in community-orientated websites aren't all governed by the same factors since every site has different admins, users, aspects and content, so despite there being similar aspects between Reddit and Digg, I don't think its absolutely reasonable to use Digg's past to explain whats happenning to reddit at the moment.

I definitely think the only Reddit users who will be joining hubski will be the ones who wish to avoid the ever-growing meme based content, which will most probably be a good thing as these people won't bring the content with the them as they are just seeking a new community which is no longer inundated with teenage boys trying to gain meaningless karma.