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Deep-Station-1746 t1_j91egc2 wrote

Isn't this kind of high-quantity-low-quality trend inevitable after some threshold popularity of the base topic? Is there any reason to try to fight the inevitable, instead of forming more niche, less popular communities?

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Borrowedshorts t1_j91rowo wrote

Let's not act like 2 million people signed up for this sub as anything other than machine learning being a buzzword. Pretty much every other sub dedicated to academic discourse has far fewer subscribers.

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[deleted] OP t1_j92av5k wrote

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Borrowedshorts t1_j92el1y wrote

Not necessarily, and at least you can ensure higher quality discussion. Places like this with high member count inevitably get inundated with pop sci bs, politics, or irrelevant personal experiences. That's what has happened to the science, physics, and economics subs.

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csreid t1_j91lr4n wrote

More people with varied backgrounds and interests in a place is good, especially in a field with as much cross-niche potential as machine learning.

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pyepyepie t1_j93btxb wrote

I agree, and there are no stupid questions! So you are a good programmer or ML engineer but then you start studying chess and you are the idiot who asks stupid questions now (or gets downvoted because you use the incorrect term). I really like your comment.

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DamnYouRichardParker t1_j91rvmq wrote

Yeah we see this happen from time to time. People promote their field of interest. More and more people join in and after a while a it reaches a more main stream level of popularity and then the "og" purists of the subject get frustrated cause "it's not the same anymore and people are degrading my passion...

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zackline t1_j92jeff wrote

> Isn’t this kind of high-quantity-low-quality trend inevitable after some threshold popularity of the base topic?

I think not as on /r/covid19 they stayed on top of it. There they enforced strict rules keeping the discussion focused on science.

Here it seems it’s acceptable for teenagers to post their opinion. The rules or their enforcement seem more lax.

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f10101 t1_j931eps wrote

This already happened, splitting into dozens of niches - it's just the niches didn't reform on Reddit. The ML community gradually migrated from here to twitter a few years ago.

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