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It became a dumpster fire well over a decade ago and has never recovered since. Even the site administration is in on the act, lest we forget spez editing the database to modify users' comments with no indication.



> It became a dumpster fire well over a decade ago

Relevant: “Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity” (2014), Air Force Research Laboratory, Eglin AFB: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf

…a.k.a Reddit's "Most-Addicted City" of 2013: https://web.archive.org/web/20160604042751/http://www.reddit...


This is why user comments need to be cryptographically signed. Cryptography prevents this sort of nefarious and hidden corruption.


Cryptography means precisely nothing if you can't trust the cryptographer.


Reddit is simply not that important.



With 861 million monthly active users, I suspect it is.


Accounts, I presume that number is. Most people probably have at least a couple.



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