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A comment on Facebook's internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence. Parent comment

Re:Facebook's internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence by skybrian on Sunday May 21, 2017 @06:05PM (#14389504)
I meant compared to the really large scale social networks.

I don't know how accurate this is, but to put some numbers on it, Reddit seems to be #9 and Twitter #11 according to Alexa [1] and 4chan is rated much lower [2].

Although, Hacker News ranks higher than I expected [3], which seems suspicious. Perhaps there's a better way to measure it?

[1] http://www.alexa.com/topsites [2] http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/4chan.com [3] http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ycombinator.com

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Re:Facebook's internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence by sillysaurus3 on Sunday May 21, 2017 @07:40PM (#14389889)
There's a chance HN could be artificially compressing the number of upvotes site-wide in order to maintain the illusion of smallness. Reddit did this same thing for nearly a decade. E.g. Obama's AMA only appeared to have 14k upvotes even though in reality hundreds of thousands of people voted on it.

It'd be harder to get away with on HN, but maintaining the illusion of a tight-knit community for as long as possible is pretty crucial to the site's success.

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Re:Facebook's internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence by r721 on Monday May 22, 2017 @04:39AM (#14391957)
That's wrong 4chan domain - it should be 4chan.org, not 4chan.com:

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/4chan.org

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