Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think it necessarily does reflect the community. It has less than 10k subscribers. There are a shit load of subreddits with way more subscribers (the top, pics and reddit.com, have around 350k). It is based off google's pagerank system, which I imagine is pretty complex, but bases a lot off of people linking to the site. So if I understand correctly, r/jailbait just has a lot of other sites linking to it a lot, but members of the community are found there in a relatively small population (though subscribers obviously isn't the best indicator of traffic to a subreddit).
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u/fireburt Oct 27 '10
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think it necessarily does reflect the community. It has less than 10k subscribers. There are a shit load of subreddits with way more subscribers (the top, pics and reddit.com, have around 350k). It is based off google's pagerank system, which I imagine is pretty complex, but bases a lot off of people linking to the site. So if I understand correctly, r/jailbait just has a lot of other sites linking to it a lot, but members of the community are found there in a relatively small population (though subscribers obviously isn't the best indicator of traffic to a subreddit).