• Raycu
    +5

    I think reddit's biggest problem was that freedom of speech only worked in the beginning because of how close the community was, and how the admins were role models, and the people their always had civil conversations. As the site grew to a bigger extent, more unruly members joined, and it lost it's core of discussion, and moved to a lower common denominator. After time passed, better members left, worse members joined. In the end it degraded to this, and free speech seemed worse and worse due to the people speaking. Sure smaller subreddits were nice, but they were hard to find, and often times things you might be interested in weren't as high quality as you would hope.

    This is probably what leads me to believe that I would much rather have a community where applications, and removal of users is more common. Admins should try and clean the community, and if they do something wrong, the users should still have a say in it as well. In the end, this can either go horribly, or beautifully, but it's a model I want to try some day. Until then, let's see if Snapzu can survive off of it's close community and admins. Maybe it will succeed where reddit failed.