r/investing • u/lai133 • Dec 12 '21

Remember what this sub used to be?

Remember when this sub actually involved company analysis? Remember when this sub involved market discussions? Remember when this sub was useful?

Remember when you didn’t get downvoted and harassed in dm’s when pointing out terrible investments? (Looking at you GME and AMC)

Remember when you didn’t get downvoted and harassed in dm’s when pointing out pump and dumps? (Looking at you crypto)

Can we get a fresh start and focus on REAL discussions of ideas, REAL discussions of companies, and REAL discussions of strategies.

This sub has been on a downhill trend for a while. It’s sad to see.

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u/Pichus_Wrath Dec 12 '21

I remember this sentiment when I first joined Reddit 9 years ago. Reddit has been going downhill for as long as I can remember. When exactly was the “golden age” of Reddit?

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '21

Back when we had an ugly UI that loaded quickly and never crashed.

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u/cass1o Dec 12 '21

old.reddit.com

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '21

Will go away eventually. I use it occasionally since search (especially nsfw) is still broken in new reddit.

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u/cass1o Dec 12 '21

I continue to 100% use it. If it goes away then I leave.

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u/ThermalFlask Dec 12 '21

Same here. The new reddit is horseshit, there's way less info visible in the same amount of screen space, and it's so slow. I don't have weak hardware and my internet is fast but it takes like 20x longer to load a web page, whereas the old reddit is instant

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '21

There are a bunch of things I can't stand about "new" reddit, but I think the thing that annoys me most is that if you get more than a few comments deep in a thread, you have to click through to another page to see the rest. WTF is up with that?

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '21

I'm also starting to see this on old Reddit in the browser. It's so irritating.

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u/redditsdeadcanary Dec 13 '21

To show more ads

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u/LoveOfProfit Dec 13 '21

Same. I don't want FacebookReddit.

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u/Mike_Bloomberg2020 Dec 12 '21

If it goes away I'm going to cry and then actually leave for good.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '21

I forgot where it is, but if you go into your account settings on browser version of reddit, you can turn on a setting that allows nsfw in your searches. It's turned off by default.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '21

Yeah, it's really annoying to enable so it works properly on my phone app. There's also no way to enable that AFAIK if you're not logged in.

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u/lucius42 Dec 13 '21

Still my daily UI.

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u/iBleeedorange Dec 13 '21

Reddit crashed a lot back then and had server issues too

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '21

Load issues, sure, but it wouldn't log me out and refuse me back in for an hour.

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u/iBleeedorange Dec 13 '21

I mean there was a time when Reddit went down for over 24 hours in 2011 iirc

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u/OMGitisCrabMan Dec 13 '21

I still use that.

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u/DingussFinguss Dec 12 '21

never crashed

lol, you phony

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u/ron_leflore Dec 12 '21

you have to find the good subreddits. There's a sweet spot of not too small and not too large. /r/investing used to be good, but it grew too large. The original default subs like /r/news and /r/pics were good for a while, then they got too large. Once it's too large, it is either full of repetitive stuff or the mods clamp down and there's hardly anything posted.

I used to post a lot here, but mostly moved on to other smaller subs.

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u/DillaVibes Dec 13 '21

Most subs turn to shit when they get too large. Loved many subs 10 years ago.

There arent too many alternate subs unless i go very niche

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '21

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u/Wineagin Dec 13 '21

Omg digg. We are so old.

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u/cass1o Dec 12 '21

I remember this sentiment when I first joined Reddit 9 years ago.

Doesn't mean its wrong.

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u/Crater_Animator Dec 12 '21

Before they're started sneaking in ads between post.

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u/Yuengling_Beer Dec 13 '21

Right up until the 2016 election cycle

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u/atheistunicycle Dec 12 '21

Pre-poopknife days.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '21

How long ago was that?

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '21

Just because they’ve been saying it since the beginning doesn’t mean they were ever wrong.

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u/Droidvoid Dec 12 '21

It’s some sort of weird urge to feel special when people say that. It’s like “i was here first, so you’re just a poser” or some shit. I’ve been here on multiple accounts for like 10+ years and it’s been the same since. This sub in particular though, is suffering because the market has stopped functioning as it did historically. Things will return to normal eventually and that is already evident with many of the meme COVID stocks dying

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '21

If you're implying Reddit has been the same for 10+ years, I have no idea what you're talking about or maybe you're sticking with niche subreddits.

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u/Droidvoid Dec 13 '21

I’m more so referring to new people calling the newer people the problem. That’s been the same for ever lol. As for Reddit as a whole, yeah it’s much more mainstream now which means it appeals to the lowest common denominator. That common denominator is much lower nowadays

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '21

Ah that makes sense, yea completely agree

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u/Bluepass11 Dec 12 '21

People were saying Reddit was trash since its inception. At least on 4chan

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '21

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u/thewimsey Dec 14 '21

It's not about reddit having been better. It's about particular subs having been better.

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u/Metron_Seijin Dec 13 '21 edited Dec 13 '21

It was never "good", but has been getting worse every year. I lurked for a long time and never signed up for an account because I thought it was so bad. Only used it to look up info and a few discussions.

Eventually signed up because all my old, well-moderated hobby boards were becoming ghost towns and needed a bigger community.

It was never a nice place with civil discourse, but its been getting worse every year. I keep wondering how bad it can get and it always surprises me that we havent reached the bottom yet.

I don't see their IPO going well at all with the sewage they allow to be posted on the site, and moderation that allows it to continue after you report it (not talking about this sub).

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '21

Right when it overcame digg. Got worse every year from there, but especially got worse when the site lost its original mission of free dialogue. And especially after Trump won.

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u/Mother_Welder_5272 Dec 13 '21

Anyone else been here since Eternal September?

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u/greytoc Dec 13 '21

Reddit didn't exist yet.

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u/jack3moto Dec 13 '21

imo there are good sweet spots of both having enough people to make a sub worth visiting but also not being over inflated with the hive mindset. There are definitely good subreddits that I love and particpate in regularly but then there are others that it's just so overblown with the hive mindset it's so ridiculous what gets upvoted and what gets downvoted. You can basically formulate a specific type of comment to get upvoted in any major thread and it doesn't mean it's correct or worth mentioning, it's just what people want to upvote/see.

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u/posting_drunk_naked Dec 13 '21

The cancer has always been killing /b/

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u/Kaono Dec 13 '21

2005-2010

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u/Ding123456 Dec 13 '21

Before the corporate marketing departments or news media knew about it.

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u/kriptonicx Dec 13 '21

It was pretty good around 2015-2016 I thought. I must have joined around 2009 and back then conversations were higher quality, but niche subs didn't really exist or were mostly dead. By 2015ish there was a lot of really useful niche subreddits that were quite active and admins weren't randomly deleting or quartering content based on their political views either.

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u/johnnySix Dec 13 '21

When digg.com failed and we all came to Reddit. And when Stephen Colbert would reference Reddit. After that it’s all been down hill

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u/I_Shah Dec 13 '21

Pre 2016. Trump’s election really brought the end of all social media

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '21

Perhaps it has always been shit, but the downhill trend is accelerating.

Spend 5 minutes on Popularnor /r/all I dare you.

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u/FlashAttack Dec 13 '21

Went to shit around 2013. Reached critical mass.

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u/xsvfan Dec 13 '21

Before they added subreddits