Pro tip: one 400-word rant on my city's sub got 30k views in a day, and the boost was all because of one angry reply
Back in March I posted about the potholes on Grand Ave in St. Paul and it sat at maybe 200 views for two days. Then some guy replied calling me a liar, and within six hours the post hit 30k views because the reply fight kept pulling people back in. The algorithm does not care if your post is good, it cares if people keep coming back to argue under it. Has anyone else seen a single comment war do more for a post than the post itself ever could?