Having been here a while, I can say that we've apparently lost site of the roots of the community that originated on the subreddit, and while I don't see a way to reverse this decline, I think it's at least worth talking about.
Essentially the level and tenor of the discourse has altered dramatically; I've gone ahead and listed out the type and style of the high quality content we saw back on the day on the upper half of this diagram, and done what I could to contrast it with the sort of typical content and user type we see now. I think any objective observer will agree this is a downgrade.
If we're doing gnosticism I'm gonna go take the Cainist position and say we can only be free from posting when we have experienced every possible kind of post in our life
"My gnosis will not be stopped; you Archons will not be ascendant!" I howl as the mods delete my 15th horny thread on the path to Cainist enlightenment.
Smh these hylics will never be enlightened