@FireMadeFlesh This has been a really interesting phenomenon I’ve been observing, since quality of the site is what gives me insomnia.
The interesting to me is that I’ve also been getting reports from long-time users that quality has been up during that same period. My hypothesis is that there’s a three month honeymoon with Fluther—since when you join there’s a real joy in discovering the collective (looks like we did something right). I think as time wears on, though, your tolerance for quality increases, and around 3 months it feels like the quality is for shit.
Now, I’m not trying to belittle your feeling, I think it’s totally valid. However, as someone who has seen over 95% of the questions ever asked on Fluther, who looks at every moderated question, and who checks the site 10–15 times a day, I can’t say that I’ve seen a large decrease in quality over the last few months.
I’d even have to say I’m pretty impressed with the quality of the questions during this current news hit, since we’ve quadrupled our daily question rate and increased our daily join rate 10x.