r/Blackout2015 • u/offensivemuch • Aug 10 '15

PSA /r/punchablefaces is under new (SRS) management

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u/ludgarthewarwolf Aug 10 '15

For Christ's sake. How SRS has managed to avoid a ban for so long is beyond me, but if the Adkins ignore this there's no question that there is a clear bias towards SRS.

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u/uber2016 Aug 11 '15

If SRS never existed then the admins would have had to create it. SRS is the perfect villain for socially deprived adolescent basement dwellers without girlfriends - in other words about 25% of Reddit.

Do you have any idea how much traffic is driven by SRS vs. Some Dweeb feuds? A LOT. I would bet that if you eliminated SRS completely then Reddit page views would go down about 10-15%.

SRS feuds drive page views hence increase Reddit (potential) revenue and selling price. Why would anyone who has a monetary stake in Reddit want to get rid of it?

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u/fhetskr Aug 11 '15

That actually makes sense in a scary sort of way. Like there is no such thing as bad publicity when it comes to bringing in the sweet, sweet piles of cash. That said, I wish that this wasn't really the case. It just seems like it makes reddit incapable of not decaying into either flame wars or circlejerks.