The fact comments from latecomers are usually buried by the highly upvoted ones posted earlier probably contributes to this in my opinion. There's very much a n

The fact comments from latecomers are usually buried by the highly upvoted ones posted earlier probably contributes to this in my opinion. There's very much a need to be 'early' if you want to do well on Reddit, and that rewards people who have hours to spend every day posting on the same subreddits and hovering over the new posts list.