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Interestingly, this was almost the exact strategy that brought down digg back in the day. They tried to partner with some news sites to auto-submit each of their stories to digg, and their users revolted. Of course, they had a looser structure than reddit does and so the auto-posted "professional" posts began to dominate the main feed, while reddit has the opportunity to keep them within their own subreddit.

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Posting to Digg's front page and a new subreddit are completely different beasts, though.

EDIT: a non-default subreddit.

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yes, that's what the second half of my comment says.