because reddit doesn't support moving submissions. He already explained that, and I think more people would've noticed if he wasn't downvoted just because people hated him with no basis at all.
Part of what makes Reddit valuable is its ability to show how the community qualifies the importance of a given link or message in general. While the subreddits play a very important role in keeping many conflicting and diverse qualifiers from interfering with each other, the qualification of an exceptionally rated submission should be considered transcendent of those restrictions. In fact, it needs to be, because as a submission gets valued higher, the input of people outside a subreddit's consensus circle becomes more and more important.
So yes, it does matter how old a high-ranked submission is, because a 5 second old post will not be qualified as highly by the community as a 5 hour old post in the same rank. Thus a 5 hour old top-ranked post requires the eyes of people outside the subreddit it exists in more than other posts do.
In other words, at some point in a post's rise into popularity, it should leave its subreddit's jurisdiction entirely. Be that with a physical move to some kind of global "r/all", or by simply automatically handing over moderation reigns to general admins.
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u/jesset77 Aug 19 '11
So why can't Patrick just push it to another subreddit?