Having a revolving door of the same, redundant questions is exactly what Reddit wants. It profits by making people see their adds and that can’t happen if you aren’t mindlessly scrolling through the feeds. It needs a constant steam of content to keep people coming back, whereas classic forums often became stagnant over periods of members being inactive. The other issue is that Reddit is somehow even more anonymous than classic forums where core members were more visible and could hold people accountable, for better or worse. Here, it’s hard to pick out familiar user names just due to the sheer wash of random people popping in and out with one-off comments.
Having a revolving door of the same, redundant questions is exactly what Reddit wants. It profits by making people see their adds and that can’t happen if you aren’t mindlessly scrolling through the feeds. It needs a constant steam of content to keep people coming back, whereas classic forums often became stagnant over periods of members being inactive. The other issue is that Reddit is somehow even more anonymous than classic forums where core members were more visible and could hold people accountable, for better or worse. Here, it’s hard to pick out familiar user names just due to the sheer wash of random people popping in and out with one-off comments.