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coffeesp00ns  ·  2806 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Reddit is still in Turmoil

"What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there". I would argue that any large website, or website with a culture, is functionally analogous to a country in Plato's sense of the word.

What does reddit honour? It honours "Gotcha" journalism (even of itself), it honours celebrity, it honours bite-sized knowledge. It honours theft of intellectual and artistic property.

And it honours most of all the idea that they deserve that content for free.

I can see why they have the culture they have - they've hoed the rows themselves, and their crop has come to fruition.