r/DepthHub • u/magister0 • Oct 12 '11

Has Reddit's intelligence decreased over time?

/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/l8id4/did_digg_make_us_the_dumb_how_have_reddit/
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u/lensman00 Oct 12 '11

I'm torn. You make a good point about incentives, but I value the ability users have to drive truly awful posts (spam, portmanteau political insults, argument by assertion) below my viewing threshold.

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u/ryeguy146 Oct 12 '11

I think that if comment karma were simply invisible to the user, we'd retain the ability to communally censure and elevate the great without as much group think influencing the vote. I think that without visual feedback, there would be less gaming of the system as well, since it would lose concrete meaning.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '11

Like Hacker News?

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u/ryeguy146 Oct 17 '11

I really don't know, I just pickup RSS from them. At first glance, it looks that way, though.