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Indeed.

Back when my blog was wordpress, if I linked to it here I got about 10x the number of views as karma.

This was about 100 views, so it's possibly not representative…

This is essentially the 1% rule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule

Yeah, anyone who has ran a website, or even better, worked at a high-traffic user generated content company has experienced the lurker/creator ratio. Even if you discount 90% of it as bots, it's still insanely high. 8 billion people is a hell lotta pair of eyes.

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