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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Playing devils advocate, I suppose some companies have an extremely tight window where they rely on that last 3% after costs..I believe grocery stores operate like this...but reddit is not a food store, and I don't know wth I'm talking about. (:

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't get me wrong, reddit has been the worst for about 10-12 years now and keeps getting worse every year, but as long as we're talking about this mysterious 3%.

How much traffic does that 3% account for? That's the real metric. I assume it's more than the avg user.

Also, what is an avg user? Someone that just wants a crowd-sourced opinion once a month is not. Is it someone that just looks at the front page and moves on? Does the avg user post? Do they lurk? Surely they're not mods.

I realize all these questions are moot, as reddit has been utter garbage since a little before fatpeoplehate got taken down.