I recently have been thinking about UGC site in general, and it seems like they generally go two ways:<p>1. Allow most legal content to be uploaded and control distribution with algos<p>YouTube, Roblox, Twitter, Tinder, Flickr, Insta, FB, TikTok.<p>This lets users practice and test things without risk to their work or account.<p>2. Sites that try to "keep the db clean" by nuking stuff they think is "bad" by some criteria.<p>Sites like this: Wikipedia, most big subreddits<p>Type 2 sites can be unsustainable because they tend to make new users feel judged, and don't give them the chance to iterate and improve their work until it's more ready to be shared and useful to a broader audience. You just find your content nuked, or removed from the subreddit, or downvoted a ton, often with a dismissive or aggressive comment. This is NOT the way to grow and survive as a company over a long period of time<p>Obviously, there is no necessity to keep the db full of only high quality items. As the scope and number of niches a site covers, it's not possible to maintain that. On the other hand, using algos lets you do interactive tests with content, directly testing against various audiences to see if they like it, without having to do editorial work yourself.<p>Of course, there has to be some limit - articles for every pokemon, or every version of every pokemon, etc at some point it does get too far. The thing for me is coming in and seeing your content completely deleted.