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Re:Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months by drivebyacct2 on Friday August 26, 2011 @02:54PM (#2929510)
I'd be very interested to see this comment thread. I've never, ever seen anyone defend YouTube, let alone YouTube style comments. Further, if you're in an at-all-trafficked subreddit, poor spelling, poor grammar and outright rudeness is fairly well discouraged.
Re:Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months by bane on Friday August 26, 2011 @03:04PM (#2929562)
Re:Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months by dmix on Friday August 26, 2011 @03:09PM (#2929582)
Indeed, this comment in particular was the top reply that had 12+ upvoted before later being downvoted.

"Are you trying to be clever, are you a dumb ass or something else? Is this some funny youtube shit that is above my understanding?"

The exaggerated lack of intelligence in my original comment was really obvious. The fact that people didn't get the joke was what was concerning.

Re:Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months by mkr-hn on Friday August 26, 2011 @03:39PM (#2929691)
I might be missing something, but it looks like you missed the parent commenter's joke.
Re:Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months by mynameishere on Friday August 26, 2011 @03:49PM (#2929722)
I'm having a hard time seeing anything of interest in the whole thread, funny or otherwise. Who are these people who see a comment with 600 upmods or 80 downmods and think, "Yeah, I better add my vote to that gross consensus."
Re:Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months by mkr-hn on Friday August 26, 2011 @03:52PM (#2929733)
Jokes don't have to be funny to be recognized as jokes.
Re:Reddit Traffic has Exploded in 12 Months by muyuu on Saturday August 27, 2011 @04:48PM (#2932438)
Wow. I wonder if HN will follow this trend too. Reddit was nothing like this just 2 years ago.