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Believe it or not,it has only been 17 days since the post that started it all.
by brmj 16y ago
Believe it or not,it has only been 17 days since the post that started it all.
- clavalle 16y agoI am not convinced that Reddit was not played on this one. It is easy to get anything to do with Colbert upvoted on Reddit. It was around 17 days ago that he seemed to start making personal appearances in the comments too. All it would take is one Colbert/Stewart staffer to seed Reddit and it is off and running. Not disparaging it. I think the rally is a great idea and the theme is brilliant. Reddit and other similar sites can be a powerful initial catalyst but it feels like this happened awfully fast to attribute the real genesis to the Reddit community.
- llimllib 16y agoIf "playing" reddit ends up with >$150k donated to charity, then I say, play on. edit: I think it was $150k when I checked this morning, now it says $244k. A quarter of a million dollars in less than a week.
- clavalle 16y agoTrue. I am constantly astonished at how fast online communities can come together for the common good. I can be a bit oversensitive with anything that smells like astroturfing, I suppose, even when it is for events/organizations/people/causes I like.
- brmj 16y agoThat is depressingly likely. However, the user who made the post that started it all had been a redditer for over a year and posts on a number of topics, so if your theory is correct they were fairly subtle about it.
- clavalle 16y agoI would be willing to bet that most of Colbert's and Stewart's staff have an average Reddit age of over a year :)
- clavalle 16y agoDo you have the username of the post that started it all? I'd search but, you know, their search feature.... Now the idea is starting to bug me and I'd like to look into it a bit.