[johnny35]

This take doesn't make any sense to me.

> Reddit posts are good because the people who create these posts or make comments > are doing it to share their knowledge. And there is no financial incentive > associated with it. They know that do it to share their knowledge.

Ok, that's why people are Googling for "xyz reddit"...

> However, once Reddit creates a search engine, and once people get to know that > there is an opportunity to game the system and create a financial opportunity, > people will abuse that system and we will be back to the place where we are > now. SEO stuffed websites.

There's nothing in this article explaining how the existence of better search on Reddit would provide different incentives than the very popular search engine for Reddit that is being used today (Google). What is this "financial opportunity" that doesn't already exist that will spell doom?