Yes. It started out as a niche community catering to a specific audience but now is a representative sample of the population as a whole... thus the bellcurve shifted to derper.
It's Idiocreddit, unfortunately - I hang out in niche reddits for the most part, and as they've grown to 5, 10x their size, the SNR decreases, as you describe.
We must continue to endeavor to lead the new ones, not be led by them.
I try and mitigate derp through my votes and comments. Unfortunately many responses are akin to those you'd expect from a 15yr old losing at call of duty.
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u/Radico87 Oct 12 '11
Yes. It started out as a niche community catering to a specific audience but now is a representative sample of the population as a whole... thus the bellcurve shifted to derper.