1) The invite system will artificially slow the rate of growth, allowing new members to acclimate to the cultural climate here without drastically changing it. Since reddit-digg comparisons are so popular, I would not be surprised if reddit's open door policy let a lot of the toxic elements of the old digg community through far too rapidly etc etc.
It seems like such a minor detail, but it might be the most telling factor in preventing the bloat described by BlankWIndow
2) One would hope that since so much of this recent drama is from a perceived lack of communication between the reddit admins and moderators (I was never a mod over at reddit so I can't say one way or the other what the actual situation was) that the snapzu team would take extra care to keep the lines of communication as open as possible.
3) At least for right now, there is a great reluctance from many of the migrants to radically change the inherent culture here. I think this is also at least partially owing to part one, but as long as the mentality can be maintained that redditors are welcome here, but this is not reddit and the toxicity that came to define reddit will be discouraged here, things won't go too far south.
That seems to be the big question with any social media platform. Every major forum site I have seen starts as a small friendly group of like minded people and evolves into an unruly mess. Takes a few years for one to go through the cycle. Maybe Snapzu will figure it out. I myself think it will take structure and regulation, just like a society of people living under a government. Real problem is getting money and paying all the people needed make that structure system work. People want free and without ads to be perfectly run, but that just doesn't happen. Everything has hit a breaking point.
Snapzu has a lot of restrictions in place for new users that keep the power in the hands of veterans that are well liked by the community. I think these systems can prevent a lot of the damage that was done by moderators in the days of olde.
One feature that does this is new users can only downvote 5 times a day, so people can't launch massive downvote raids because they can only downvote so few things per day.
What would keep Snapzu from going down the same road, though? It has the same upvote / downvote mechanism. (Or, at least, it's similar enough.)
1) The invite system will artificially slow the rate of growth, allowing new members to acclimate to the cultural climate here without drastically changing it. Since reddit-digg comparisons are so popular, I would not be surprised if reddit's open door policy let a lot of the toxic elements of the old digg community through far too rapidly etc etc.
It seems like such a minor detail, but it might be the most telling factor in preventing the bloat described by BlankWIndow
2) One would hope that since so much of this recent drama is from a perceived lack of communication between the reddit admins and moderators (I was never a mod over at reddit so I can't say one way or the other what the actual situation was) that the snapzu team would take extra care to keep the lines of communication as open as possible.
3) At least for right now, there is a great reluctance from many of the migrants to radically change the inherent culture here. I think this is also at least partially owing to part one, but as long as the mentality can be maintained that redditors are welcome here, but this is not reddit and the toxicity that came to define reddit will be discouraged here, things won't go too far south.
That seems to be the big question with any social media platform. Every major forum site I have seen starts as a small friendly group of like minded people and evolves into an unruly mess. Takes a few years for one to go through the cycle. Maybe Snapzu will figure it out. I myself think it will take structure and regulation, just like a society of people living under a government. Real problem is getting money and paying all the people needed make that structure system work. People want free and without ads to be perfectly run, but that just doesn't happen. Everything has hit a breaking point.
Snapzu has a lot of restrictions in place for new users that keep the power in the hands of veterans that are well liked by the community. I think these systems can prevent a lot of the damage that was done by moderators in the days of olde.
What kind?
One feature that does this is new users can only downvote 5 times a day, so people can't launch massive downvote raids because they can only downvote so few things per day.
Active moderation and a stable reputation system also aid in this as well as what /u/Victarion said.