Honestly AirBnB used to be cool but now it kinda sucks.

Even though there’s now a ‘total price’ option, booking a basic hotel is still less painful. There’s cleaning fees and a lot of hosts have stupid requirements like you have to do the laundry or take out the trash or whatever. If I’m paying hotel level fees I want hotel level service. Plus every now and then you hear about one of these places having cameras in the unit. Fuck that.

Remember this is a business issue for Reddit- by removing your content, you are making their database less valuable. You should assume the edit and delete system is actively hostile to this sort of activity.

To that end, I don’t suggest deleting at all. Deleting a lot of comments is a big red flag. As is any kind of automated activity like doing one every 5 seconds.

I would also suggest, if you want to devalue the database as quickly as possible, don’t bother doing all of your comments. Do the ones that are most popular. And don’t delete them, edit them. Whatever edits you put in should be coherent sentences so a spelling and grammar check would not flag them. And don’t do one every 5 seconds, do one every 5 minutes.

This has been promised for literally years. But it shows how out of touch they are- they think people are closing their subs and leaving over mod tools and if they make the shitty ad infested non accessible official reddit app have mod tools everyone will be happy.

People aren’t leaving because of fucking mod tools. People are leaving because of lack of respect. People are leaving because Reddit said the quiet part out loud- that we are only there to provide them content and ad impressions and what we actually want doesn’t matter one bit to them. That thousands or millions of users expressing anger is “noise” to be ignored.

Tell your users their strong opinions are ‘noise’ and those users will go be noisy elsewhere.

Agree 100% on the critical mass. Last week I would visit a day later and sort by new, and there’d be maybe a page of stuff since my last visit. Now I am back to sorting by top day, because going through new would take hours.

I think it’s not just more users that are here, but that the users who are here are invested now. It’s no longer just a fun toy to hack around with, it’s potentially a new home so we are starting to decorate :-)

We’re not going to get the same numbers as Reddit, and that’s a good thing. I don’t want already users to leave. I want the smart ones to leave and come here. The ones who have something to say, the ones who can engage in discussion and debate, the type of people who made up reddit’s early user base. The idiots who just want to scroll memes and TikTok style low effort videos all day and can’t have a respectful conversation to save their own life, Reddit can have them. They install apps without question and don’t use ad blockers so maybe Reddit can make some money of them. Best of luck with it.

I think you and @Screak42 hit the nail on the head.
There was never going to be a mass exodus, not without an established competitor (as Reddit was to Digg back in the day).

Trust has been broken. That’s like a boat that now has a tiny hole in it- it may not sink now, but that doesn’t mean it’s not sinking.

That said- I don’t think there will be a mass move. I think the more passionate old school people will migrate away, which will leave less content for the newer folks. The site will certainly get a lot less interesting. And this will hurt them in the long run. But like most mismanagement, it’ll look good for the next quarter or two.

Agreed. I feel like someday this incident is going to be taught to MBA students as a ‘what not to do’.