When things are going well, so many feel like the person avoiding or mitigating risk is silly and dramatic, and the person running headfirst into that risk is brave and rational. Then, when something awful like this happens, it’s always, “No one could have predicted this tragedy!” and they learn nothing.

To be fair, with the way people drive in the US lately, that might be right for the wrong reason.

Yeah, seems like this poll is missing an important “I did before leaving Reddit” option.

It’s especially galling because Reddit themselves have created so little actual additional value beyond that content they get for free from users. Yes, sure, they built and maintain the infrastructure on which the communities run. They should be compensated for that. But beyond just those infrastructure costs, they’ve created a bunch of crap no one asked for or wants. NFTs, awards, automatically enabled chat “features,” “suggested for you” algorithmic posts that get in the way of what you actually asked to see, etc. Do they honestly think they should be compensated for providing that “experience”? It seems like the whole corporate social media playbook right now is relentlessly pushing out things users don’t want and then getting mad when they won’t pay for them.