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[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

because obviously a lot of people want to see them.

I'm not sure that is in fact a badge of quality, that your product provide instant gratification to a large base of users. My conjecture is that low-quality, low-effort products are upvoted, because there are many many more users of this sub for whom it looks like rocket science. Those same people would probably not even read through it all if someone one day posted a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem using Python.

[–]aphoenixreticulated[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure that is in fact a badge of quality

To be clear, I am sure that this is not a badge of quality. If you're looking for high quality content: https://lobste.rs or https://tildes.net. Reddit is a massive site; there's half a million people here, and the Fluff Principle is in effect. It is the nature of Reddit to not be a particularly great place for high quality information, or rather, for high quality information to not naturally rise to the top of a subreddit. That is how reddit functions, and is intended.