I liked the star system, too. As the site grew in popularity, people just ended up 1 or 5 starring stuff.

For the same reason - the “useful content” and “not useful content” buttons were dumbed down to “agree” and “disagree” buttons on reddit.

Agree that you can’t really ask people to use a star system for message boards. Much less microblogs.

No time to talk! I’m in latex now.

Appreciated. This happened many years ago, so I’m used to my new normal.

I posted this here because I was going through my exported posts/comments from reddit, and realized that I have a ton of intellectual property that I feel can be shared with others without their involvement.