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user-inactivated · 3489 days ago · link · · parent · post: What do you love about Hubski? What makes you want leave a site?

My oldest reddit account predates comments, and I don't think I was targeted either. They seem to be mostly interested in recent conflicts and people who jumped ship over those.

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user-inactivated · 3489 days ago · link ·

Why did you join Reddit back then, with no comments available? In my experience, not being able to upvote or downvote content (assuming the rest of the community does) doesn't affect me at all.

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user-inactivated · 3489 days ago · link ·

Upvoting/downvoting content worked much better then than it does now, because reddit didn't matter enough to marketers to game and because the userbase was pretty homogeneous.

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user-inactivated · 3489 days ago · link ·

Is being (possible to be) gamed the only difference between Reddit voting then and now?

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user-inactivated · 3489 days ago · link ·

No. There's also that the vast majority of reddit users were techies, because tech circles were pretty much the only ones talking about it. The voting mechanism was useful because most of the people voting had the same interests as you, so if reddit thought a link was worth checking out you would probably agree.

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user-inactivated · 3488 days ago · link ·

Thank you.