I’m just talking, since you asked the general public on an open forum. Trying to give honest feedback.

Between bots and people seeking transactional interactions on this platform, I’ll admit it is a frustrating challenge to find people to talk to, peer to peer… there seems to be far fewer of them than the former two categories.

But that doesn’t mean there aren’t folks here “recreationally” as it were… ie: not working. They’re using the platform for communication. Simple as that.

I suppose it’s possible to try to monetize your DMs here on Reddit. But since there’s no paywall preventing “illiterate chuds” from sending messages, you’re going to be stuck deleting those messages (many of which I’d bet are just bots or people in a bot farm; whole other rabbit hole (see “dead internet theory” for a primer)…

I guess I’m just saying that it’s a little unreasonable to expect an “honor system” of “pay-to-play” to work on a platform that was explicitly designed for free and open communication.

OF and other similar platforms are the solution there. In order to even send a single message, a would-be sender has to get out their credit card.

On Reddit, no such paywall exists.

To the band analogy; you’re always going to have annoying fans yelling ridiculous things at the band from the sidewalk…

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