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August 21, 2011

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Title	Seddit 29k
Author	ThrowawayPUA
Upvotes	12
Comments	8
Date	August 21, 2011 12:19 AM UTC (14 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/seduction
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/seduction/comments/jp8x8/seddit_29k/
Archive Link	https://theredarchive.com/r/seduction/seddit-29k.1321591 https://theredarchive.com/post/1321591

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[–]Spurnout 0 points1 point2 points 14 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

[–]Nexism 0 points1 point2 points 14 years ago (6 children) | Copy Link

[–]Lead ModeratorThrowawayPUA[S] 0 points1 point2 points 14 years ago (5 children) | Copy Link

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 14 years ago (4 children) | Copy Link

[–]Lead ModeratorThrowawayPUA[S] 0 points1 point2 points 14 years ago (3 children) | Copy Link

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 14 years ago (2 children) | Copy Link

It was some blogger who posted statistics of comments vs page views. It was logarithmic, something like

100 views 10 comments
1000 views 20 comments
10000 views 50 comments
100000 views 100 comments

There were some theories for that behavior. The one which I liked the most was that, for small communities, the "brothership" feeling is strong and readers are encouraged to comment, getting an awesome 10% viewer-commenter rate. As the community grows, this bond is lost, and there are not many incentives to post a comment. People aren't friends anymore, they are strangers.

So, past some number of comments, which was around 200, almost no reader posted any longer, because they felt nobody would read them (does this sound familiar, reddit? posting a comment to 500+ comment threads?). There is a "ceiling" amount of contribution that, when reached, actually discourages contribution.

Seddit is different, I believe, because I guess we haven't reached this ceiling. There are not that many posts. But we're close, and what's more important, we have another handicap. Keep in mind that this is a sub-reddit. We are redditors here. And most redditors are AFCs, forever-aloners, guys who want to improve their lifes and come here for some advice, but most of them will never actually go out and post a FR. So the target demographic is actually against posting FRs and contributing; they want to read and learn. It's hard to break our of your comfortable internet shell and go out. For every ex-AFC sedditor who had the balls to go out and talk to girls, get rejected 1000 times, and #-close girl number 1001, there are hundreds who read our tips and FRs but never actually do nothing, not even comment.

That's my two cents and I can be perfectly wrong but it makes sense to me. I've been for more than 13 years (yes, I'm that old) on internet communities and this pattern is followed almost to the milimeter on every forum/page/mailing list I've subscribed to.

I'd love to hear some feedback on that theory though. I've been here since 1k-2k seddit, like some of you (with a different username) and I've also noticed that the increase in readers hasn't increased the FRs. Hell, it hasn't even increased the number of upvotes! Most posts never reach 20 upvotes! We hardly get to the front page and, when we do, it's with very general inner game tips, which could've been posted on TIL or AskReddit. Not that I'm complaning about this though. What I'm trying to say is that we're a small island that rows against Reddit's main current of AFCs, nerds, and pretend-white-knights who say that chasing a girl is like raping her.

All that said, I will end by stating that I have nothing against seddit growing to 30k, 50k or whatever number we grow to. This subreddit is needed, we're like a raft who rescues AFCs who jump from their emotional titanic, we teach them to swim, and they end up surviving the sinking. For each asshole in seddit there are ten great guys who have fun and have grown up to be fantastic people, either with women or other men. That's how I feel it.

[–]Lead ModeratorThrowawayPUA[S] 0 points1 point2 points 14 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 14 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link

Perhaps now, most of our FRs come from newly active sedditors

Keep in mind that some sedditors settle after meeting 2-3 good girls and they don't post anymore. As learning to sarge takes some time, this means that the oldest sedditors probably don't post FRs no more because they're on a LTR.

My case, for example. Now I'm considering to post some information on transitioning from a f-close to "friends with benefits" to a potential LTR. IMHO this is quite related with how you have sex with her (i.e. degree of passion/tenderness/roughness) and how able are you to keep your frame (keep her chasing you while being a gentleman, etc) but I want to talk about this with some real-life friends and contrast my opinion.

Nevertheless, we can try to analyze seddit's status, but in the end we can never know for sure. But hey, I like these kind of discussions, they're positive for the community.