> The point was to discuss how Reddit, Hacker News, and other message boards utilizing pseudonymous voting are not monopolized by brands, celebrities, and busin

> The point was to discuss how Reddit, Hacker News, and other message boards utilizing pseudonymous voting are not monopolized by brands, celebrities, and businesses in the same way that Twitter and Facebook are. How much of that is simply due to the nature of the product? Reddit would very much like to have the brands, celebrities, and businesses, and influenced their change to allow users to post to their own profile pages.