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Re:Imgur gets $40 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz by pavanky on Thursday April 03, 2014 @10:59AM (#7523271)
imgur has had voting, comments and it's own little community for a while now. It could cannibalize the image macro based subreddits (like /r/pics /r/funny) which drive so much traffic to reddit.

imgur is also not getting as much money as it could from reddit because links are posted directly to content bypassing the ads.

I wonder how much longer the synergistic relationship will continue to exist.

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Re:Imgur gets $40 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz by harvestmoon on Thursday April 03, 2014 @12:18PM (#7523862)
If Reddit banned imgur, that would be very bad for it. They banned Quickmeme, which decimated its traffic.
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Re:Imgur gets $40 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz by DavidBradbury on Thursday April 03, 2014 @01:03PM (#7524215)
Quickmeme was banned because they were manipulating the voting system. I don't think imgur would or needs to do that.
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