The similarities are amazing, especially considering Reddit was one of the succesors of Digg. They can now enable other successors by making stupid decissions and alienating core users.
I wonder if this speaks to the unsustainability of platforms like these, or the cycle can be broken by making good decissions.
“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it”
Having been there, the part that i’m not seeing much on is the all-out warfare.
Near the end everyone got so goddamn fed up, that we just downvoted everything that wasn’t a direct rebuke of the god-awful redesign (and upvoted some of the most rancid shit you ever did see).
People were stalking the new queues and just nuking everything from orbit.
Got so bad that they had to actively pull in RSS feeds (with downvote special exemptions) just to have something, ANYTHING that wasn’t “FUCK THIS SHIT” or a goatse man, so people just went into the comments to do battle.
Won’t reach that “burn everything” stage just yet, but by golly are they trying…