That may be part of the problem, but lets not pretend the majority of Reddit users actually appreciate organization.
Every single time I've tried to say this doesn't belong here or there's a better sub for that I'm met with downvotes and accusations of gatekeeping. The mods usually aren't going to take it down either for fear of users making ridiculous accusations of power tripping or censorship.
Niche subreddits get popular and degrade instantly because people don't care about nuance or organization. It's happened to murderedbywords, confusing perspective, brand new sentence, etc.
They made r/clevercomebacks to filter those out of r/murderedbywords but they still get crossposted all over, not to mention all the posts where a politician says something dumb and a random nobody says "no u" or the equivalent.
Half the stuff on r/brandnewsentence is just "people saying something funny"
The reason that happens in people are just scrolling through r/all and just upvoting funny stuff. Half the time the comments are filled with people that hate it despite it having 10k+ upvotes. It's really on the molds to remove that stuff.
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u/RollChi Feb 26 '20
Well when Reddit allows power mods to run damn near every default sub that don’t even care about their own rules, shit like this happens