Grass8989 t1_j5lvgka wrote
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There were days in last week where there were 5+ posts a day about him and they all stayed up. There are 3 so far today. It is almost universally agreed that he’s a lunatic and shouldn’t be in office. r/longisland was inundated with posts and felt this was the best way to handle it. The mods created a “crime megathread” for WAY less posts, so it would make sense for there to be one on this topic as well.
[deleted] OP t1_j5lwsg8 wrote
>There are 3 so far today
One of those posts is the one I mentioned with barely any activity and another is, ironically, from you which you posted after this post
>The mods created a “crime megathread” for WAY less posts
I see where you're coming from with this, but I think it would be a little bit of a stretch to call it "way less posts". The amount of posts themselves are relatively the same, with their being possibly slight more George Santos-related posts.
However, the crime posts, while there were probably fewer of them, consistently reached the front page of this subreddit during 'the election season', with most having dozens, if not over a hundred comments and upvotes, so I think it's fair to say that the crime posts had more engagement then than the George Santos-related posts do now.
Grass8989 t1_j5lyc74 wrote
I mean they gain a lot of traction and get a lot of comments because quality of life issues and crime directly effect people that live here. If people didn’t care they wouldn’t comment.
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