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by Tehdasi 1418 days ago
> And they value engagement over content quality, which is the entire reason comment-tree/vote-based systems have been pushed heavily over web-1.0 threaded forum discussions as well.

While they certainly do value engagement over quality, I suspect that the systems are put in place because they don't scale in terms of manpower, and they don't trust their users to do formalize the structure of the site.