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In practice, the mainstreaming of a site brings down the quality globally as the memes and spam bleed into other topics.


What do you mean "bring down the quality"?

This graph is misleading because it shows number of posts as a percentage, not an absolute number. I'm sure there is just as much or more quality content in r/programming and other subreddits than there was in 2005.





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