An Interview With Matt Haughey ⇥ medium.com

MetaFilter founder Matt Haughey was interviewed by Indie.vc. There’s lots here to love, but this is important:

It’s weird that there’s a time where we envisioned MetaFilter would run like Reddit, up and down votes and we wouldn’t have to have a human component to it, but that would kill the personality and the humanity of the site. It would just be mob rule and it would have all the problems Reddit has: terrible people controlling the conversation. It’s just really hard to run a human-curated anything at scale. I think that’s why I never wanted to do anything at scale.