[hn_throwaway_99]

I got a slight chuckle out of this because it reminded me of one of my favorite quotes from Slate Star Codex (in this case the blog post was talking about Voat):

> The moral of the story is: if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consisting of approximately three principled civil libertarians and seven zillion witches. It will be a terrible place to live even if witch-hunts are genuinely wrong.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/01/neutral-vs-conservativ...

[winternett]

Well if you ask me, Reddit is now mostly a small community of chosen people posting lead content, whilst everyone else watches and works for free in hope of earning a few imaginary points and reaching the now unobtainable (without paying in some form or fashion for it) front page anyway...

It's real easy to fake a user community with proper automation and a hand full admins nowadays in order to run a "revenue machine" social media community.

-Just a personal opinion, not fact (nor stated as such) though.

[detaro]

I kind of doubt the majority of reddit posters cares about reaching the frontpage.

[jseliger]

I was going to offer a garbled paraphrase of that: thanks for finding the real thing.

[ekianjo]

> if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consisting of approximately three principled civil libertarians and seven zillion witches.

And the other side is important to mention as well: you end up with mainstream communities that are echo-chambers where no-one has ever encountered anything remotely like a witch.