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View submission: Reddit starts tracking our clicks
How would this improve the user experience?
Comment by longbowrocks at 18/03/2016 at 06:09 UTC
-1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
1. Determine which spam links are tricking the most people into clicking, and focus on measures against those.
2. Show you fewer ads that you couldn't care less about, and more that you might care about.
3. Give /r/technology a chance to circlejerk itself comatose.
Comment by Diknak at 18/03/2016 at 12:04 UTC
-1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Because knowing how users use your site is pretty important. Do people hide child comments often? Only when the vote count or comment count is at a certain threshold? When people click on their name to go to the history page, what tab do they often click on first?
Having this data will help them optimize the site.