As time->inf, quality->0

Story quality feels like it has dropped sharply since FiM ended. The new story pages are an endless quagmire of isekai crossovers, niche fetishes, and rehashes of ideas from 2012.

It might be time to give up.

Comments

[Goodluckfox]

I disagree but obviously your opinion is yours. Submission wuantity falls down over time, and only some percentage of stories are “good” by whatever metric you want to measure by. I think things will reach a steady state until the submission rate decays down so far that the “good” (whatever that means) stories can no longer support interest.

Hope somebody archives this. Maybe someday I’ll be in a nursing home and want to re-read “Friendship is Optimal” or “Changeling Space Program” or whatever.

[The Blue EM2]

There's quite a bit of good G5 stuff coming out at the moment. I wouldn't give up just yet.

[Forcalor]

I've looked at this as you suggested, and now I'm curious. If you are invested in monitoring the trends of these stories, wouldn't you like to categorize them more clearly so the problem will be more pronounced?
And by that I mean, why not outline clearly what types of stories are prevailing on the site? Not only based on tags, but by actually viewing through them and defining genres/themes
You already can find somewhere around here similar statistics, so at least partially this job is done

[ibanix]

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Wrong post. See Aug 7th, 2022.