Trouble at the Koolaid Point

Re:Trouble at the Koolaid Point by iSnow on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @09:11AM (#8426679)

I'd argue that personality traits cluster, so that someone who frequents a fappenings-subreddit is way more likely to doxx your users, troll or cause other disturbances than people who don't.

And of course, junk traffic breeds more junk traffic. Even if the first generation of a shady subreddit might make this up with quality in other parts of your site, it will invariably attract generation 2 and later which will create a mini-eternal September.

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Re:Trouble at the Koolaid Point by verroq on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @09:04PM (#8430282)

I'd argue it's orthogonal.

>And of course, junk traffic breeds more junk traffic. Even if the first generation of a shady subreddit might make this up with quality in other parts of your site, it will invariably attract generation 2 and later which will create a mini-eternal September.

You can argue both ways, the quality increase will attract more quality users.

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