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View submission: [Updated] Who runs /r/Holocaust? Each line represents a moderator overlap. [OC]
I'd take a look at /r/xkcd vs /r/xkcdcomic for a nice example. Look at the subscribers and the mods. /r/xkcd has a strong history of banned comments but has a higher subscriber rate because it is first on a search for the comic.
Comment by [deleted] at 23/07/2014 at 06:56 UTC
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Yeah, now that I think about it the type of sub I'm describing still relies on linkage from similar subs. Subs on isolated topics will probably have trouble building up a base unless they're the first word you'd type in to search for it.
Comment by thabe331 at 23/07/2014 at 16:03 UTC
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It is funny they took that over, the author of XKCD really dislikes conspiracy theorists