I see the problem is something more fundamental.

It’s really two issues.

First, there must be a way to stem the tide of fake accounts and bots which dilute the experience.

Second, it is the idea that social media has no responsibility to the users, including financial reward. This is the reason for the imminent demise of Reddit before our very eyes, and it will also take down FB, Twitter and every other site designed to push advertising at us.

Ironically, the Medium model is what will work to solve both problems.

We, the users, are the product. We produce the content, we share information, we are the attraction. The more users, the more money a platform can make.

Yet, social media giants do not acknowledge it — much less share the wealth — with their users.

This is why I have pretty much stopped posting on Reddit. Not only do they not pay me for my quality content, but they shove endless advertising at me, they constantly beg me to pay them for the privilege of doing so, and they take zero responsibility for creating a decent experience. There is zero oversight or appeal process to override dictatorial moderators.

Every thread starts with some lame self-referencing pun that lends nothing to the conversation. Invariably, the better posts are buried under a sea of puerile garbage.

I produce high-quality content for the sites where I contribute. It is not unusual for a post on Reddit to have garnered thousands of likes in a matter of hours. In fact, one of my posts was the highest ever in one day on Reddit. Just one of my many accounts is 8 years old and has 42k comment karma.

For that amazing accomplishment, I earned exactly $0 — the same as a brand new account who posts nothing.

So why are my thought-provoking posts, my quality contribution treated the same as some middle school student sharing fart jokes? Am I not more valuable as an audience member and contributor? Apparently not.

But Medium thinks I am as they give me money every month and the quality of the material here is light years ahead of other social media.

This is why I am spending more time on Medium and almost no time on Reddit. Because Reddit doesn’t deserve a comment like this which will likely be shouted down by an avalanche of bots and