Saidit has turned into a thoughtless news aggregator

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[–]magnora7 11 insightful - 4 fun11 insightful - 3 fun12 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

We've thought about requiring a 2-sentence "submission statement" with each post, that is a comment explaining why they posted it and why it matters. There are some subs on reddit that use this with seemingly good success

[–]Tom_Bombadil 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

This is similar to what r/conspiracy did to wreck it. :-/

[–]magnora7 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I thought it actually worked out for them pretty well. I wasn't a fan at first, but I think it worked.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, I was late to the game.

It's probably an unjustified bias on my part.

You're probably right.