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And it risks sites like this entering an arms race for attention-grabbing bullshit, where every post tries not to look like plain text. This didn't really happen to reddit because the old guard (hello) were curmudgeons. Happened to Craigslist and eBay, though, where the attention-whore behavior is directly monetized.