"It would just be mob rule and it would have all the problems Reddit has: terrible people controlling the conversation"
that's ironic, because the overwhelming groupthink that had developed at Metafilter was the reason that I finally deleted my account. Not just abandoned it, I actually went through the account deletion process and never looked back.
Plus, it looked like reddit was really taking a chunk out of them and they didn't want to admit it. Articles were showing up later on MF, and it just wasn't very interesting to me anymore.
that's ironic, because the overwhelming groupthink that had developed at Metafilter was the reason that I finally deleted my account. Not just abandoned it, I actually went through the account deletion process and never looked back.
Plus, it looked like reddit was really taking a chunk out of them and they didn't want to admit it. Articles were showing up later on MF, and it just wasn't very interesting to me anymore.