[codinghorror]

Well, as an extreme, and just for the purposes of setting boundaries, consider the case of pornography. Wildly popular.

It's sort of an open secret just how much traffic on Reddit comes from their NSFW subreddits: see https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/154144207383171072

Should popular things always be encouraged?

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/01/the-trouble-with-popul...

[antiterra]

I'm not sure if you're just intentionally being ridiculous or mistakenly thinking that you've got a good reductio ad absurdum argument going on. In any case, why exactly are you conflating "wildly popular" with "extremely valuable?"

Even if the grandparent post was about popularity, your statement is as unconstructive as this argument would be:

A: "You're intentionally putting way too many non-criminals in jail."

B: 'Ah, but for the purpose of setting boundaries, consider the extreme case where we don't put anyone in jail at all.'

[kemayo]

The post you link to in that tweet only mentions one NSFW subreddit in the top 25, though. It's not a very good example of your point.

[codinghorror]

True. In the original tweet I said literal or figurative porn, where figurative porn would be stuff that's overtly Digg-style entertainment junk food.

Maybe this is a better list:

http://redditlist.com/index.php