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Having been here a while, I can say that we've apparently lost site of the roots of the community that originated on the subreddit, and while I don't see a way to reverse this decline, I think it's at least worth talking about.
Essentially the level and tenor of the discourse has altered dramatically; I've gone ahead and listed out the type and style of the high quality content we saw back on the day on the upper half of this diagram, and done what I could to contrast it with the sort of typical content and user type we see now. I think any objective observer will agree this is a downgrade.
Only through the material forms of the posts themselves can we intuit the essence of the formless non-posts.
I myself use posts only as a guidepost to glance at what is not illuminated. All of your non-posts have been wonderful as far as I can tell. I cannot tell as it is the nature of such things.
I would urge you to win against your demiurgical impulse and delete this post. However, it is too late already. A post deleted is qualitatively different from a non-post.
I work for a sunrise I know I will never see.