Forum Overview :: We Love Katamari :: After getting the money, the admin admits the site has gone to shit

[quote name="and needs overhaul"]https://metatalk.metafilter.com/24834/MetaFilter-revenue-update-holy-cow-yall [quote]4. Community funding and subscriptions. We talked a lot in the State of the Site post about focusing more in the future on supporting a formal subscription process for the site. It'll still be pay-what-you-can—it's essential to me that MetaFilter remain a site you can use regardless of your means or financial circumstances, even if that's literally zero dollars—but it'd allow us to normalize the expectation that this place costs money to maintain and needs ongoing community support. 7. Encouraging fun, interesting, makes-your-day-better-not-worse posts and engagement on the site. Some of this is features, some of this is culture & community work, and we're looking at both. Revamping FanFare to be much easier to parse and find stuff on is an ongoing project; we're aiming to support and highlight good/cool/fun/neat posts through community-wide posting initiatives and regular sidebarring; <b>we're going to filter politics megathread content out of the Popular Favorites view</b> to make it a less grim and monotone list and more of the joyful/interesting mix it had traditionally been; 8. Working to improve on recurring conflicts and sources of friction in conversation. This is a complicated, progress-by-increments subject and one that's going to require a mix of moderator work (via both in-thread moderation guidance and some private discussion with users) and collective effort from the MetaFilter membership as we try to steer some of our worse conversational patterns back toward a focus on kindness and patience and benefit of the doubt where possible.[/quote] Political threads are now walled off into their own ghetto so they can't bother anyone else. The socialists on that site will never appreciate that shitty finances forced the admins to make needed changes. [/quote]