Very true.  Though I think their point was more like, "The people who post on SN are a special group of people.  If we put these same incentives on Reddit, it might not have the same effect."

SimpleStacker

"Another person pointed out that 200,000 posts and 11,000 users is tiny (ouch, 

), and thus we can't say much about social media more generally.  "

I would've noted that simply having a lot of posts doesn't automatically equate to quality. Facebook is a living example of being a pile of cow shit online.

econ

Research in Public #13: Internal Department Feedback

"Another person pointed out that 200,000 posts and 11,000 users is tiny (ouch, @k00b), and thus we can't say much about social media more generally.  "

I would've noted that simply having a lot of posts doesn't automatically equate to quality. Facebook is a living example of being a pile of cow shit online.