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Re:Reddit's top user leaves platform after harassment by magicalhippo on Thursday May 21, 2020 @12:34PM (#23260656)
That would work. However it could also make the community hard to grow.

I surfed HN for years before I decided to make an account, and even now I don't really know anyone else using it in my circle. I guess I might have found someone if I asked around, but it would definitely raise the bar.

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Re:Reddit's top user leaves platform after harassment by kthejoker2 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @06:32PM (#23266301)
Making communities hard to grow is a feature not a bug.

Let us read our Shirky:

https://web.archive.org/web/20050615082335/http://shirky.com...

A well-tended community is constrained by things like Dunbar's Number and SNR ratios.

Soft forking is a common response - IMO reddit is the closest social platform to "getting it right", although it should do a better job of pushing low-value content (/r/politics, etc) down into the "minor leagues" of subreddits.

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