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Dead Internet Theory: Collectors and hobby traders often move buying, selling, pricing advice, and reputation into private social groups, where trust can improve while public discoverability declines.
Dead Internet Theory: Access to a private conversation does not automatically grant permission to republish it; preservation has to account for the audience participants expected, the sensitivity of the material, and the community's own boundaries.
Dead Internet Theory: Community reputation scores help users identify trusted contributors, but coordinated voting can inflate those scores and manufacture the appearance of expertise that the underlying contributions did not earn.