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Re:Reddit Traffic Has Been Dropping for a Year by jrockway on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @01:45AM (#12906811)
Maybe people are just tired of AskReddit, since people just repost the same questions and answers over and over. (I got "top comment of the day" for an original comment on AskReddit once. It's since been reposted a number of times, and has also been the top comment of the day when posted by someone else!)

If you look at the numbers for The_Donald, I think you'll find the traffic numbers pretty good. Their brigading may have even changed the outcome of the election!

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Re:Reddit Traffic Has Been Dropping for a Year by mtgx on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @02:38AM (#12907220)
/r/politics has been a disaster, though. Filled with Russian-style Clinton PAC paid trolls and incredibly biased and one-sided for such a "generic" subreddit. At least we know what to expect from subreddits such as /r/The_Donald, /r/Libertarian, or /r/SandersForPresident.

Perhaps it's time to get rid of the downvote button? Or come up with a better algorithm. I don't think they've been working on improving their algorithms for quite some time.

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Re:Reddit Traffic Has Been Dropping for a Year by khass on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @08:13AM (#12909975)
It didn't work well for Digg when they removed the downvote button. Reddit cannibalized most of their traffic when Digg V4 rolled out.
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