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I'm not certain that I understand what the issue is here (if any); The only thing preventing the "lurking" 90% from also affecting what is seen is... their inaction?
Love to see stats on percentage of users that submit.
Any chance someone can help me still?
To me it feels like 10% of people write posts, but it's the 1% that checks and votes on 'fresh' which decide what the remaining 90% see.
And this is before any moderation takes place (shadowbans, rate limiting, visibility limiting, etc)
The 90-9-1 or 1% principle is well established in virtually any communications network, it's a very rough rule of thumb, and arises as do numerous other phenomena out of power law and Zipf function relations. Jacob Nielsen discussed the concept in 2006, and I recommend it for more background. There's also a good Wikipedia article. Andrew Odlyzko uncharacteristically seems not to have addressed this directly in his ow…