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Its already proven itself to be a great recipe for communities and empowerment...it's literally the best the world has ever seen. Hacker News even uses it's for

• awkward 9y ago
  On the other hand, PG built Hacker News specifically to get a reddit-like that has it's own culture, identity and moderation policies.
• Stanish 9y ago
  It has also proven to be incredibly vulnerable to manipulation when people discover how to leverage money into vote manipulation and moderator takeover. All of the political subreddits very quickly became cesspools of propaganda during the course of the last presidential election, and this has only increased since. Many of my favorite political subreddits are just dead now.