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Yes, there is a bit of an issue with downvotes being handed out just because someone disagrees. But that also happens on HN - there's an issue with voting being
by icanhackit 8y ago
Yes, there is a bit of an issue with downvotes being handed out just because someone disagrees. But that also happens on HN - there's an issue with voting being used as a blunt instrument across all sites that implement it.
But in defence of Reddit, the sheer breadth of content is impressive. Like /r/skincareaddiction over to /r/showerbeer (NSFW). And the content remains permanently available unless it's actively deleted by the poster or a moderator as opposed to being eventually forgotten by your chosen Usenet host.
- u801e 8y ago> And the content remains permanently available unless it's actively deleted by the poster or a moderator as opposed to being eventually forgotten by your chosen Usenet host. A lot of the commercial usenet providers have at least a decade's worth of retention at this point for binary groups. They may have even longer retention times for the text groups. The only thing that would keep a post from being archived now is having the X-No-Archive: yes header in the message.