Yes, as I explained to possessedcow, I meant in terms of content rather than users! Otherwise I would be contradicting myself. Yes, that's the thing I see as changing reddit. The fact that people can use cheap and easy memes and content to generate points that are, well, pointless. This self-made competitive element drives the content to become more efficient, i.e: easy to manufacture and replicate. It's like the economy of the internet. I hope what you said about Hubski is true, I've not been here for long at all but I already like the content and the users. That said, do you think content change is the main reason for the downfall of community content sites? I discussed earlier that Digg's downfall was it's design change and subsequent feeling of "betrayal" by it's users. Do you think redditors will start migrating to avoid content, or will it largely become a "memebase" kind of deal? I have to agree about smaller subs though, I've since unsubbed from most large subs and concentrated on the smaller ones. More community based.
Yeah sorry about that, I didn't see it beforehand. I think change in community-orientated websites aren't all governed by the same factors since every site has different admins, users, aspects and content, so despite there being similar aspects between Reddit and Digg, I don't think its absolutely reasonable to use Digg's past to explain whats happenning to reddit at the moment. I definitely think the only Reddit users who will be joining hubski will be the ones who wish to avoid the ever-growing meme based content, which will most probably be a good thing as these people won't bring the content with the them as they are just seeking a new community which is no longer inundated with teenage boys trying to gain meaningless karma.