People buy sites and when they get administrative control, they invent new "old users" who then dominate the site. People you never saw before with five year old accounts? That's the new owners. Might be FBI, might be Conde Nast, whoever. That's been the standard MO since the late 90s.
For my purposes, I'd rather have a small, engaged audience that likes reading and writing poetry, than a large, disengaged audience that only cares about negroes, faggots, and Jews.
Seriously, life is kind of short. Why waste time hating people when you have the potential to create something special?
I'd add, re my other comment, that the only other differentiator may be in management, and not letting things go too far down the shit show path. Things may be a bit too pedantic here in that regard at the moment, or not. But it's far easier to lighten up gradually, than to impart necessary maturity in other people to keep things stable.
Better problems, easier solutions.
Just post things and vote for things. First page will be good no one will care about the rest.
Originally for myself I just wanted election news, since reddit and rest of internet for that matter, were such a shit show in 2015. Eventually after election I finally made account and posted.
The only reason I was there was because of the content and discussion. I never noticed the names, honestly for a long time. I certainly wasn't there for its own version of a shit show or to "enjoy" reddit lifestyle drama.
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