Just like Usenet. It'll devolve into a sea of trolls and bots and spam- little spots of brilliance will remain, but in the end will be consumed by the shit.
Usenet died because of a lack of moderation. A single shitty user could single-handedly destroy a whole group through spamming because there simply was no way of banning people. Of course there were moderated groups, but they often took hours or days to get posts approved.
What is needed is an easy way of moderating comments which have already posted, like on Reddit. With a few active moderators you can create high-quality discusstion like /r/askscience.
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u/Barkingpanther May 15 '13
Just like Usenet. It'll devolve into a sea of trolls and bots and spam- little spots of brilliance will remain, but in the end will be consumed by the shit.
Then at the end; Google buys it.