Should Grapevine community gatekeep the posts now onwards ?
Hey Folks, On the onset , I would like to welcome all the new members who joined Grapevine over last few days. Grapevine is a nice platform and I really hope all of you will enjoy great conversations and viewpoint on this community .
Now to the point why gatekeeping might become essential : I heard some days back , a good man on YouTube posted a video telling his fans about this awesome community. That is why you might have seen outburst of ‘ this is a nice platform ‘ posts on Grapevine. They also thank him in the body of the post xD. Honestly , I am fed up of this non sense posts And my timeline is already cluttered due to this.
Now his followers will start highjacking the community. Right now , this being a professional platform , the posts were interactive and decent to read. Now don’t be surprised if you see posts irrelevant to the community. I remember same thing happening with r/developersIndia community some years back and right now , that sub is kinda dead and have repetitive kind of questions which can easily be found if you have taken the effort to search for the posts.
Secondly, I won’t be surprised in case their is a difference of opinion with the Guru , people or his followers will start you bashing left , right and centre.
I know this post sounds rude and entitled since everyone should have fair opportunity in life , but definition of fair varies as well.
I’m very interested in knowing the POV of everyone involved here - may be I am over thinking. But would appreciate your thoughts on this .
At the end of day, Grapevine is a funded company.
If they start gatekeeping, how will they scale? How will they justify to investors?
There has to be some better way to do this.
I have seen many influencer talk about the platform. Write 3 pages of GPT generated posts. Don't know how it is even helping their followers or community in any way
Follow the footsteps of DM. I believe DM is only accessible once you have some x number of grapes. May be , do the same for posts as well ?
Reddit also enforces this in terms of minimum karma to post in certain communities .
First time user experience will drop. If I can't start conversations (or seek help) why will I continue using this platform
