Over the years, the Internet (and Reddit in particular) has become more and more efficient at what it does on nearly all fronts. Of all people you should know the rise of the image macro, the low-effort posts and the circlejerky behaviour. Small subreddits in which you know everyone became huge colossal monstrosities of unknown faces and posters. Ever so slowly, the usernames didn't matter anymore. You've talked about that subreddit consisting of the original defaultmods, which is still good because you know the people there, at least on a basic level. It still has that human factor. However, most of Reddit is devoid of that human factor. Because some sort of social contact requires effort. Too much effort for a site like Reddit, unless it's in a really small sub. I don't want hubski to become too efficient. We're not content-hungry robots, we're humans (or are we dancers? ). I want a site where I have to think about what I do, where social actions have social consequences. The coloring and the bio are aspects of that. Maybe we can think of new ways to improve the Hubski social framework?Behold. Human Reddit.
These are not consequences of size - these are consequences of anonymization. Image macros and circlejerk posts started on 4chan - the /b/tards migrated to Reddit because there, they could get points for their "wit." If reddit had spent more time on building community before building traffic, the low-effort stuff would not have happened. There used to be pride of ownership, at least until Digg came. Then there was no longer a community per se. From that point the place was hosed.Of all people you should know the rise of the image macro, the low-effort posts and the circlejerky behaviour.
Wow, I've never thought about the contrast, but I love that I know and follow and recognize (some of) the usernames here. Veen, nice to meet you.Ever so slowly, the usernames didn't matter anymore.