The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful…

  • Altair
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    31 year ago

    They’re posted about when you’d expect in hot?

    nsfw

    • 🦥󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠
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      1 year ago

      Lets just use your own screenshot for a second.

      Do you think all the posts in it that are practically all posted at the same time (16-17 hours ago) is normal, organic user behavior to you?

      • Altair
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        41 year ago

        That’s just about the average amount of time posts take to hit ‘hot’; it was similar in reddit too.

        Pretty constant stream of posts in new:

        nsfw

          • Altair
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            21 year ago

            ? You mean the same users making multiple posts?

            You’d be surprised how many posts on reddit is by the same few people too; mere percentages actually make and post content. Not that it matters much since it is still content.