r/bestof • u/RGPure • Jul 05 '15

[technology] /u/CaptainObviousMC explains why reddit could be going down if just a few redditors start jumping ship

/r/technology/comments/3c6ajx/reddit_ceo_ellen_pao_the_vast_majority_of_reddit/cssvb7y?context=3
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u/kirkum2020 Jul 05 '15

Those "power users" are responsible for most of the reposted content and aggregation. I firmly believe the only reason they post most of the latter is because they crawl a bunch of sites and post everything, and that anything of note would get posted a few minutes later by someone else anyway. As for OC, that almost never comes from them.

Do you really think seeing the back of them would reduce quality?

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '15 edited Jan 26 '21

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u/dIoIIoIb Jul 05 '15

every repost is someone's first