Twitch streamers who spend years broadcasting to no one

Re:Twitch streamers who spend years broadcasting to no one by gitgud on Monday July 16, 2018 @07:56PM (#17546186)

> The "if you build it, they will come" mantra from Field of Dreams is not applicable to a world where so much more content is being created than can possibly be consumed.

This resonates with me deeply. I've always lived by that sentiment.

It's also one of the reasons I love the points systems on Reddit and Hacker News, as it's the fairest way to objectively rank things people make, rather than by how much advertising and marketing they can afford.

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Re:Twitch streamers who spend years broadcasting to no one by basica on Monday July 16, 2018 @08:57PM (#17546472)

It's kind of broken though as most people will only view the most upvoted comments because once again there's just so much content it's impossible to view it all, so you upvote what's already been upvoted. If you're there first you generally will get a lot of karma even if better comments come later.

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Re:Twitch streamers who spend years broadcasting to no one by CamelCaseName on Monday July 16, 2018 @09:54PM (#17546709)

This is why new comments get put on top, and if after a decent amount of views, they don't garner enough upvotes, they sink.

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