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There’s a huge incentive for Reddit to retain the comments - that’s their knowledge base. Without that a lot of their value is gone.
by Daneel_ 3y ago
There’s a huge incentive for Reddit to retain the comments - that’s their knowledge base. Without that a lot of their value is gone.
- hackinthebochs 3y agoRetain is not equivalent to undelete (making visible to everyone).
- Daneel_ 3y agoIf it’s not visible to other users or paying LLMs then it’s worthless. That’s what I’m getting at.
- reaperman 3y agoStrong incentive also exists to undelete.
- xp84 3y agoIt is in this case. They don't "need" the data themselves, they need Googlebot to see it to get traffic, which is their lifeblood both in general and for IPO. Have you heard the recent popular saying that Googling things barely even works anymore unless you append reddit to the query, which tends to bring up actual information instead of SEO trash?
- wongarsu 3y agoArguably the perception of the size of their knowledgebase is more important than the actual size, at least when talking about the upcoming IPO.