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Have you met Reddit? They love flamewars.

• tedunangst 11y ago
  reddit also, as far as I know, fares rather poorly on the $/view metric. (It's not quite that simple, sure.)
• Natsu 11y ago
  I thought they were having advertiser issues, but maybe I'm out of the loop here.
• nostrademons 11y ago
  Yishan posted a couple hours ago that Reddit's business model is built upon flamewars. Basically get people heated up and then they gild the comments they agree with. https://np.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3dautm/content_policy_update_ama_thursday_july_16th_1pm/ct3ryvn https://np.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3dautm/conten... ...come to think of it, this explains a lot of the Reddit drama. The Reddit Gold was flying left and right during the black-out (despite pleas not to give any money to the site), and then every time an admin, CEO, former CEO, or board member pours gas on the fire, their revenue goes up. It's brilliant! They've figured out how to make money off of hurt feelings and angry people, and now have an incentive to cause as much drama as possible.
  • RickHull 11y ago
    Ha, this is great, in a not-so-great but kinda-great way!