• Preston Maness ☭@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    A lot of that traffic is people googling something and finding the answer on reddit and then getting on with their lives. it will probably be that way for quite a while.

    That is reddit’s core selling point. And it’s why locking hundreds of subs proved so devastatingly effective that reddit dropped the ban-hammer and started

    1. Banning mods that would not open the sub’s back up (even when their communities voted to keep them closed) and replacing them with shills.
    2. Forcing subs open.

    I guarantee you that reddit saw their bounce rate jump sky high and freaked the fuck out.