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It wasn't about agreement or disagreement. The pendulum swung HARD the other way in 2016, and /r/the_donald dominated the front page for the year leading up to
by TheRealDunkirk 6y ago
It wasn't about agreement or disagreement. The pendulum swung HARD the other way in 2016, and /r/the_donald dominated the front page for the year leading up to the election. This is why is should be clear that Reddit makes a lot of money by manipulating the front page feed. Trump just simply outspent Clinton on Reddit.
They just binned /r/t_d entirely, and, in my opinion, that IS an agree/disagree decision. The same folks will be back with the same content under a different sub, but I doubt they spend enough to punch through again this time. I think, given their success last time around, that the price will be much higher.
Then again, what do I know? I was a pretty avid user at one time. Now I block the whole site and everything related. At this point, there's very little useful content left. It's basically just a giant portal for porn, and with 2 young boys in the house, and no way to filter it, I don't want it on my network. If they'd offer a DNS-based "safe" mode, like search engines, I'd open it back up.