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0 pointsceejayoz7mo ago0 comments

I think this policy was, in large part, intended to respect the user base, who get exhausted answering the same question over and over.

I do agree they later trashed that relationship with the Monica incident and AI policies.

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PeterStuer7mo ago

Sounds like they optimised for a select 1% class of self appointed gatekeepers rather than the broad user base. Classic mistake of nearly every defunct social site.

ceejayozOP7mo ago

To a certain extent, you have to. Same reasons Wikipedia has a core clique of editors; they do a lot of the work.

It worked beautifully for quite a while. I don't think anyone anticipated ChatGPT when planning it all out.

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