Spam bots have a preset spam limit. Knowing their weakness, we can send wave after wave of mods at them until they reach their limit and shut down.

Don’t they know we’re running out of math?! And they’re wasting it on silly pictures and weird symbols?

Exactly. This is only a “stupid” decision if your only metrics for success are unmitigated growth and content/comment quantity.

Yes, for a community to thrive there needs to be some minimum viable threshold of active participants, but that threshold isn’t “as many users as we can possibly get.” Just like there’s a bottom limit, there is a sort of carrying capacity as an upper limit. Out of control population growth will quickly make an ecosystem inhospitable which will kill a community just as surely as not having enough members to sustain itself.

I agree with this. One of the more irritating things about places like Reddit is that they’re full of low effort content and conversations get filled with a lot of noise from people who don’t really want to meaningfully contribute.

Exactly. The original aim of the war was the annex Ukraine completely.

It’s such a shame what happened to the creators. They’ve even encouraged people to pirate it.