<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Retr0id</author><text>I know a couple of people who moderate niche-but-active subreddits, and they&amp;#x27;re still inundated with spam. The only real difference is that they &lt;i&gt;can&lt;/i&gt; stay on top of it, for the most part. So yeah, the niche subreddits are still alive, but I think they&amp;#x27;re struggling.&lt;p&gt;One of them closed to non-approved submitters, and now they get AI-generated requests for account approval.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bluetidepro</author><text>The key to make Reddit still an amazing resource is finding niche subreddits that fit your interests. The very broad subreddits like funny, news, pics, politics (where this is likely from), etc. etc. are all just full of spam, and trash like this. They have been for YEARS now. However, say you dive into a subreddit for a specific video game you like, it&amp;#x27;s going to be full of relevant content with very little spam. Or if anything, the type of spam is just reposting content which still may even be new for you. Reddit is not dying, just the giant stadium size subreddits are trash. I visit video game subreddits for games I actively play almost daily and they are all incredibly useful and interesting.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later</title><url>https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/11615413</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rospaya</author><text>Why would I dedicate my time to a subreddit that might vanish overnight or might get taken over by the admins? Way back, subreddits were independent forums, and now they&amp;#x27;re one protest away from being kidnapped.</text><parent_chain><item><author>bluetidepro</author><text>The key to make Reddit still an amazing resource is finding niche subreddits that fit your interests. The very broad subreddits like funny, news, pics, politics (where this is likely from), etc. etc. are all just full of spam, and trash like this. They have been for YEARS now. However, say you dive into a subreddit for a specific video game you like, it&amp;#x27;s going to be full of relevant content with very little spam. Or if anything, the type of spam is just reposting content which still may even be new for you. Reddit is not dying, just the giant stadium size subreddits are trash. I visit video game subreddits for games I actively play almost daily and they are all incredibly useful and interesting.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later</title><url>https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/11615413</url></story>