jkoebler

I would also say because much of that does end up on the front page or at the top of comment threads. This is an extreme case, but look at what happened after fatpeoplehate was banned:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/right-now-reddits-top-posts...

Hey, I wrote this article. We cover the internet and internet culture—Reddit is a massive, massive website that has very real impacts on the media and on what the average internet user sees on a day to day basis. As a reddit user, I saw dozens of threads complaining about the front page algorithm, so I decided to look into it. I emailed Reddit and asked what the deal was, and their CEO wanted to talk about it. We write about Reddit maybe 2-3 times a month and this took me only a couple hours to write. Felt it was important.

Reddit has major problems with its community and racism and sexism and the like, but it's still a hugely influential website so changes to how it works is important