/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>53918546
>Dont give a shit about preddit but you have piqued my interest, what happened?
The same thing that happens to every single preddit "community."

>Board forms for some general topic
>People come to board because they are interested in said topic
>More people = More spammers, trolls, and general idiocy
>More idiocy = Additional moderation becomes necessary
>Moderators eventually take on the unsolicited mantle of "community leadership"
>Moderators begin "curating" the content and taking on responsibilities that have nothing to do with their role and that no one asked them to do: giving interviews to the press, selling merch, conducting political litmus tests for membership, etc.
>Eventually at least one of the mods does something remarkably stupid with his undeserved and unearned power
>Community splinters into five or six new boards where the cycle begins anew