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When your users quite literally run the site by adding and commenting on content - the user has all the power by design. Without the users, you have no content
by Nadya 11y ago
When your users quite literally run the site by adding and commenting on content - the user has all the power by design. Without the users, you have no content and without content you have no visitors and without visitors you have no advertisers.
Do something your user base disagrees with? They'll go elsewhere. The site then dies out into obscurity like Digg and a new site will take over.
- tsotha 11y agoNot just adding and commenting - the users also moderate. IMO reddit users, particularly people who post topics and/or moderate, have every reason to feel some ownership. Not that they own it technically. But like you say, reddit dies if they leave.