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celebratedrecluse wrote

Reply to comment by ziq in They killed r/chapotraphome! by Heywood_Floyd

hm, this is a good point, however the overwhelming majority of forum users are lurkers, or people who upvote and downvote only without regularly contributing.

raddle's ratio is really quite good in comparison, but the price is that we are small and don't have a big reach to those people. i find that kind of a shame, because this is the place i hang out and its nice when others come in and share it respectfully, but i can see why there are alternative perspectives that you and others have. it's just that, i like to see front page stuff with triple digit engagement, because it means there's a critical mass where people can engage with the content here on our wiki, which might be interested in joining a free school class or reading club, etc.

but that kind of quantification logic, unfortunately, is definitely connected to domestication and dominant culture psychology/indoctrination, so i'll acknowledge it isn't everything and shouldn't be a goal unto itself.

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