Because regardless of what people have been saying for months, the split of communities and waves of bans have not stopped, further entrenching this site as a place only for a very limited group that is extremely online, very easily offended by things that are either meant in jest, would be commonplace on the sub, and almost always not meant with malintent.
The algorithm is optimized for anger and refreshes every 30 minutes, emphasizing comments and arguments over actual votes on a post. So that leads to the culture cultivated here where the entire site fights over some new shit every week and it's the entire front page. Then the admins act shocked and disable downvotes to reduce toxicity while neglecting that they have designed a site for it. Then we get a wave of saccharine "love everyone" posts as if that can pave over the culture of the remaining users.
It's a bad site experience when most of the posts are people yelling at each other, that's almost never what made up the front page of cth, and it's because just being a casual viewer here you see posts with 10 upvotes over posts with hundreds, checking once a day. Sorting by top of the day is not a replacement, because by not being the default, those posts die when hidden from most users.
This should be a single-board to replace the single board that CTH was, with a flairing system to distinguish posts. Adding in super users that have the ability to control the posts over the rest will not improve things, but if you do it you'll surely get praise from them, further reinforcing your idea that this direction is a good one.
Dividing people further into tribes so they can produce more hatred aimed at one another.
Which is what this will do.
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Because regardless of what people have been saying for months, the split of communities and waves of bans have not stopped, further entrenching this site as a place only for a very limited group that is extremely online, very easily offended by things that are either meant in jest, would be commonplace on the sub, and almost always not meant with malintent.
The algorithm is optimized for anger and refreshes every 30 minutes, emphasizing comments and arguments over actual votes on a post. So that leads to the culture cultivated here where the entire site fights over some new shit every week and it's the entire front page. Then the admins act shocked and disable downvotes to reduce toxicity while neglecting that they have designed a site for it. Then we get a wave of saccharine "love everyone" posts as if that can pave over the culture of the remaining users.
It's a bad site experience when most of the posts are people yelling at each other, that's almost never what made up the front page of cth, and it's because just being a casual viewer here you see posts with 10 upvotes over posts with hundreds, checking once a day. Sorting by top of the day is not a replacement, because by not being the default, those posts die when hidden from most users.
This should be a single-board to replace the single board that CTH was, with a flairing system to distinguish posts. Adding in super users that have the ability to control the posts over the rest will not improve things, but if you do it you'll surely get praise from them, further reinforcing your idea that this direction is a good one.