What the heck is going on over at Reddit with posts getting downvoted so hard? And I’m not talking about obvious troll posts, or spam, or things you’d expect to get downvoted. A lot of them are just questions being posed to the community in question. I glance into the feed and there’s a ton of posts with 0 upvotes and a bunch of comments. Is this bots or is the community over there getting THAT toxic, even on the hobby subs?
I hadn’t heard of this before, interesting. Here’s the link to wiki if anyone else is interested in learning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
Absolutely–especially if it helps to offset server costs. I’ve donated before for that.
Curious what you’d think of a sort of roped off, “free to enter” entry community/instance that would be akin to a shallow pool. Just enough so you understand how it works and see what it would be like, but everything else would have that pay-for barrier. You’re right that there’s a good benefit to putting a wall up but at the same time we’re still small enough that actively discouraging people from joining might not* be wise. I absolutely have turned my nose up to websites and servers that have some kind of pretty splash page and then a “Okay pay to get in!” message. I don’t even know what I’m paying for.