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Another nice thing I noticed is that the lower influx of post allows more engagement because you don’t “arrive late” to comment on a post. Back there if you responded to a post that was 4+ hours ago nobody would respond and the post was already dead.
That's true. I've got a feeling that the rhythm has changed. I'm not sure if it's because there aren't as many posts per minute or because by the time I read I post it doesn't already have like 10000 comments. Suddenly I dare to engage in the conversation because people are still taking part on it, my comment is not going to get lost. I like this a lot.
Same, I never felt like participating on reddit because a lot of the content i saw was already past its moment, it seems silly to comment when no one has engaged in hours, let alone a post a week old or something.
There's a lot more engagement to be had here.
That’s a really good observation. It legit feels like when I switched to Reddit from digg back in the day lol
The trick for older, active posts is to start commenting under the top comments instead of making a top level comment yourself. That way, you're seen by most people who don't sort comments by new.
Yeah, I did this often when I used reddit. Also tried to hop on to top comments that had less comments underneath it, since then it ends up being hidden until someone clicks see more or something.
For sure. I was largely a lurker on Reddit not because I didn't like engaging with the content and community, but because it was practically impossible for me to engage in anything. Either the post I commented on didn't get popular enough to last long enough for engagement, of by the time I saw something that was popular enough, everyone had already moved on hours ago. It feels much different here where there's fewer posts, and that means that people will spend longer on each post and speak their own mind as well, rather than looking at the top three comments, and moving into the next post.
Some of the sponsored content on Reddit (/u/pizzacakecomic, 'he gets us') didn't even allow for real engagement. You weren't allowed to be critical of the 'content' because the sponsors didn't want any criticism of their product.
Or it would go on for 1-2 days, and people would take it from 2,000 comments to 12,000, most of which nobody ever saw.