I remember several years ago r/Casual Conversation was brimming with interesting and candid discussion. As it gained more and more traction I saw it go through the same evolution that killed r/IAmA and r/askreddit. More popularity means more traffic, more traffic means more posts, more posts means stricter moderating, stricter moderating means less “casual” posts. Before long it was just another upvote machine, and that’s when I dipped out.
So having said that, how is your morning going? Did you do anything cool this weekend?
Me too. It used to feel like people actually listened. These days when I think I have something valuable to contribute, it takes me like three tries just to post it because it gets removed by the automods for some arbitrary reason. Most of the time I just say fuck it and move on. Anyway, glad you’re here and welcome to the community!