[Spare_account]

You were asked for a source though. You've just expanded on your point but without a source.

As it happens I am an old.reddit.com dinosaur that finds your argument plausible, but I'm interested to see the data as well.

[GavinMcG]

jedberg is the former chief architect and operations manager of reddit, fyi.

[Spare_account]

I'm guilty of not clicking through to the profile page of everyone I reply to

[GavinMcG]

I wouldn't say that, and my comment wasn't an accusation.

If you want to be guilty of something, I'd say it was approaching the conversation adversarially rather than charitably. "You were asked for a source" treats the other commenter as an inattentive schoolboy, and coming from a place of curiosity with a question like "But how do you know that's actually what happens?" might have done the job just as well.