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Comment by aurareturn | Hacker News Reader

The subreddits that I frequent have turned into a low effort meme fest.

No original OP posts are allowed, only URLs from the same old websites.

Yes, and the person you responded to posited that this is because they used to be niche. You claimed this was not the case, they provided some URLs that demonstrate semi popular subreddits have always been shit.

This post sounds like you are still disagreeing but nothing you've said points to another conclusion

Your reddit experience is from mods and their rules and how they enforce it, not the site overall.

Site overall. Mobile app makes it easy to type a few words and hit send and hard to write well thought out posts.

Yeah, look at AskHistorians. Its still pretty awesome.

Not really, if you want to ask a question. 9/10 times it gets locked for breaking some obscure rule. If anyone answers, that answer is just deleted immediately as well.

This type of subreddit specifically is almost entirely useless since the advent of AI.

It depends. I have compard some answers with my discussions with different llms and i still find the answers in the sub qualitatively better.

Every interesting question just shows a bunch of deleted comments, so I stopped looking at it a while ago.

There is another sub which tracks answered questions. Its a side effect when focussing on quality.

When every mod does the same it becomes the whole website.

As long as mods are human volunteers, can they ever keep up with scale of reddit? I regularly see submissions (on old.reddit's /r/all) that got to 10k+ upvotes and 200+ comments in hour or two before it was taken down for breaking given subredit rules.

The site is the sum total of all that

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