So when are we going to have a serious conversation as a community about over-rewarded posts, and how Downvote wars are not the answer?
Many of the (actually few) content consumer people focus on the Trending page. Most other people focus on content creating. This results in a lot of ignored and overlooked posts, and in the general lack of real human comments. So much that the posts from most of the people does not get visibility. A new post quickly gets buried under other new posts. There are so much content creators, yet so little content consumers. And most of the content creators focus on individual growth instead of collective growth. The selfishness and greed spoils this platform.
So when are we going to act as a real community?
We have our own community we made in #informationwar and #deepdives for political/news things.
You could try joining one or making your own also.
Right now this entire platform is at the mercy of a few hundred people who have the majority stake.
a cabal of eighteen with maybe five influencers and thirteen followers
Excellent observation.
What do you have in mind ?