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RE: How Does Content Go Viral on Reddit?

in #socialmedia8 years ago (edited)

Flagged as disagreement on rewards. This is heavily overrewarded by whale and trail votes. There is very little original here, it not only does little more than summarize existing research and well-understood (and well-described not only on wikipedia but on countless existing psychology web sites and blogs) concepts, but does so in an overly-verbose, poorly-presented, and poorly-edited form. Not only is the content not indicative of the sort of organic contributions that will lead to community growth, but it in the form presented, it would be rejected by my professional publications as well. @krnel, I would suggest you focus more on High Quality and less on producing a High Quantity of both words and posts. The latter does not imply the former, in fact it implies the opposite.

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The fact that this post is trending is detrimental to the growth of the platform. If somebody wanders onto the trending page of steemit from the outside, posts like this are nothing but a turn off.

I can't show this to any of my friends or family, for example. I don't know a single person outside of Steemit who has any interest in something like this. If any case can be made for content driving growth (and I'm very skeptical), it is going to have to have some kind of broad appeal. Or at the very least, appeal to some segment of the outside world.