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Honestly, all suggestions from the original post is the epitome of "If everyone is stupid, then why aren’t you rich". The moment he suggested OnlyFans model on Reddit, all of his suggestions lost value. Do you know that OnlyFans even doesn't want to be OnlyFans anymore?

I think this is the way Reddit supposes their power users to have the old reddit experience. If they didn't care about power users, they'd completely decimate old.reddit.com months after deployment of the new design, just shove it all 'em mouth. They always leave ways for power users to have the most authentic reddit experience.

Recently, Reddit has changed their algorithm to filter out contents of pornographic subreddits from the front page r/all. They didn't touch the communities. But they made it much harder for average users and new users to accidentally discover porn contents on Reddit. They didn't want to do another 'tumblr'. But this, consequently, has impact on promotion and expansion of those subreddits. This is a smart move (that other platforms have the same trouble should learn). Change hurts, but it is barely felt.

> If you access Reddit via https://old.reddit.com it's always the better UI

This is an assumption that I'd had until I read feedback from users who joined reddit after introduction of the new reddit design, that old reddit web interface is ugly. Well, I think reddit knows better than us. They have the data!

I use throwaway account for a few purposes:

* People cannot trace which dumb things I talked about in the past to use ad hominem on me. I felt disgusted when attacked by ad hominem. Without chilling effect of being dug from the past, I get more freedom in expressing opinion.

* To stay anonymous in a reasonable way, in the sense of preventing people from profiling username. Reading someone posting as 'anon314' or 'throwaway2021' would feel different from someone as 'hiimelonmusk'. It would leave no remark in the back of one's mind.

> If this thing is indeed a ball, there will be plenty of astrophysicists happy to pick it up and run with it.

This reminds me of what happened with Sir Atiyah and his 'proof' on Riemann hypothesis few years ago. Sir Atiyah, despite of being a well-known mathematician (but in a different discipline), got absolute silence from researching community and experts when he proposed his proof on Riemann hypothesis and connection of fine structure constant of physics to mathematics.

If experts stay silent, if your work gets no follow-up, it's likely that what you said is wrong or has no value to people.

Regarding the meta of physics posts on here. I'd just like to tell my feeling. Reading science related or physics related opinions of people on Reddit, I feel like most of them are lay people. They express their admiration of science, their surprise for new knowledge, etc. What they wrote indicates them being lay. Reading physics or science related opinions here on HN, I feel like I've fallen into a rabbit hole of personal crackpot ideas of pseudo-experts that are ubiquitous on the net. If this is cutting-edge science, why wouldn't we non-experts just be a bit more conservative with our words? (Alsolutely no offense to any real expert out there).

If you haven't known, there's this book called The mathematical mechanic by Mark Levi that has topics as you described.

Well, at the end of the day, this is not more stupid than Bitcoin.