casebash comments on Linkposts now live! - Less Wrong

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Comment author: casebash 29 September 2016 09:02:16PM 0 points [-]

I don't think it is bothersome. It is a trade-off between getting less traffic because there are more posts to compete with for attention or getting more traffic because there are more visitors in total. In most sub-reddits with links and self-posts, links end up dominating

Comment author: Houshalter 29 September 2016 10:29:39PM 0 points [-]

In most reddits images end up dominating because that's the lowest common denominator content. In subreddits where the content is mainly articles, I don't think self posts do badly. For instance, I just checked /r/math and they seem to be more self posts on the front page than links.