More than 98% of Reddit users don't post or comment on posts: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/b5f9wi/let...

After the last few days I more and more strongly suspect that's because of a few events like r/place where it becomes incentivized to have many accounts per real user.

There is a widely-known Internet rule of thumb that 1% of users add content, and 99% lurk. There have been several studies that seek to validate that, several of which are outlined in the Wiki summary:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule

I always have heard the 90-9-1 rule. 90 lurk, 9 interact, 1 create. Not sure where I heard that though.

It's a well known approximation, called the 1% rule.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2006/jul/20/guardianw...

People are downvoting you since this is considered common knowledge on HN, and you come across as a bit combative.

The "Way to go HN. Typical civilized people living in the comfort bubbles in West." is also definitely not helping him.

Have a look at the references listed in this article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule#:~:text=2%20Particip....

Google "Pareto principle" for infinite examples.