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Generic question: I see a lot of news articles stating that WSB has "10 million members". Does being a 'member' go beyond clicking the 'join' button on that sub

Generic question: I see a lot of news articles stating that WSB has "10 million members". Does being a 'member' go beyond clicking the 'join' button on that subreddit? If so it's more like a 'follow this channel', isn't it?

SyzygistSix 6y ago
Correct. Although that sounds more like the entire number of reddit users, not just WallStreetBets.
- say_it_as_it_is 6y ago
  Reddit is much larger than you think. It has over 52 million daily active users and 50+ billion monthly views. https://www.redditinc.com/ https://www.redditinc.com/
- akie 6y ago
  No, it's indeed the number of users in that subreddit alone. The daily threads there regularly amass 100k comments. Reddit has grown really quite large.
- dunefox 6y ago
  Oh sweet summer child.
- vmception 6y ago
  just WallStreetBets
mgerullis 6y ago
If you don’t have a certain number of karma points you cannot even post there, I guess the largest part there is only lurking.
- asdff 6y ago
  It is striking how just about any subreddit is several orders of magnitude larger than their average engagement. It's seemingly no matter the size and affects huge and tiny subeditors. I guess there really are that many bot accounts on reddit.
  - bradlys 6y ago
    Many people (including myself) will just not post. If you want to see what’s going on with a subreddit in your feed, you have to subscribe/join it. You can manually visit all your favorite subreddits but that can be very tedious and doesn’t fit the “news feed” type of behavior that people want to use.
  - stjohnswarts 6y ago
    About 95% of reddit users are lurkers and not commentators. Just there for the lolz and linked articles/pictures/memes
  - eindiran 6y ago
    See: the 1% rule and participation inequality. It seems to be a constant of human engagement on internet platforms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participation_inequality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participation_inequality
hammock 6y ago
What does it matter?

SyzygistSix 6y ago

Correct. Although that sounds more like the entire number of reddit users, not just WallStreetBets.

say_it_as_it_is 6y ago
Reddit is much larger than you think. It has over 52 million daily active users and 50+ billion monthly views. https://www.redditinc.com/ https://www.redditinc.com/
akie 6y ago
No, it's indeed the number of users in that subreddit alone. The daily threads there regularly amass 100k comments. Reddit has grown really quite large.
dunefox 6y ago
Oh sweet summer child.
vmception 6y ago
just WallStreetBets

mgerullis 6y ago

If you don’t have a certain number of karma points you cannot even post there, I guess the largest part there is only lurking.

asdff 6y ago
It is striking how just about any subreddit is several orders of magnitude larger than their average engagement. It's seemingly no matter the size and affects huge and tiny subeditors. I guess there really are that many bot accounts on reddit.
- bradlys 6y ago
  Many people (including myself) will just not post. If you want to see what’s going on with a subreddit in your feed, you have to subscribe/join it. You can manually visit all your favorite subreddits but that can be very tedious and doesn’t fit the “news feed” type of behavior that people want to use.
- stjohnswarts 6y ago
  About 95% of reddit users are lurkers and not commentators. Just there for the lolz and linked articles/pictures/memes
- eindiran 6y ago
  See: the 1% rule and participation inequality. It seems to be a constant of human engagement on internet platforms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participation_inequality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participation_inequality

hammock 6y ago

What does it matter?