For anyone who isn’t a user of Reddit, it is a massive online community with various sections (sub-reddits) devoted to different topics of interest. Users on the site can upvote and downvote posts that determine what page they land on to someone visiting the site.
Essentially, this is a newspaper where everyone’s the editor in chief but everything is published. If it’s horrendous (or more often not at all) then the community can downvote it into oblivion before the remaining masses know it exists.
Everyone gets an equal vote in what content they like/dislike. Egalitarianism. Perfect Communism?
Esports content lives, dies and prospers on Reddit.
Unfortunately, Reddit is not owned by the community that serves to keep it flourishing. It’s a private company. And if I learned anything from Joseph Conrad.. absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Reddit owners have the power to shut down content creators/contributors if they so desire. By doing so they can essentially maim an entire organization in one fell swoop. Heard of OnGamers.com? Reddit has. Judge Dredd is real.