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View submission: Voting & commenting on archived posts
The increase in expected mod actions would equal the increase in comments only if the comments were randomly distributed.
In this case, engagement on old posts are more likely to be from high-intent users, while that on fresh posts is more likely to come from "drive by" users
Comment by WoozleWuzzle at 30/09/2021 at 19:54 UTC
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engagement on old posts are more likely to be from high-intent users,
Yeah but once spammers and bad actors learn that posts are no longer locked they're going to dig up posts to comment into. Hell, I've seen t-shirt spammers show up in less than 6 month old threads already dropping links. Or people coming in to drop their etsy store link once mods are no longer looking.
Comment by YannisALT at 08/11/2021 at 11:40 UTC
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*likely to come from "drive by" users*
and harassers. The crazies are just going to go back on someone's profile to find old comments to annoy another user. Nobody is going to see comments on a dead post in any significance whatsoever. Most people and subs don't even have their default setting to display New comments first.
The increase in comment and posts was definitely just because this change was being advertised and tested in those few subs that were selected to participate.