I don’t think it is bothersome. It is a trade-off between getting less traffic because there are more posts to compete with for attention or getting more traffic because there are more visitors in total. In most sub-reddits with links and self-posts, links end up dominating
In most reddits images end up dominating because that’s the lowest common denominator content. In subreddits where the content is mainly articles, I don’t think self posts do badly. For instance, I just checked /r/math and they seem to be more self posts on the front page than links.
I don’t think it is bothersome. It is a trade-off between getting less traffic because there are more posts to compete with for attention or getting more traffic because there are more visitors in total. In most sub-reddits with links and self-posts, links end up dominating
In most reddits images end up dominating because that’s the lowest common denominator content. In subreddits where the content is mainly articles, I don’t think self posts do badly. For instance, I just checked /r/math and they seem to be more self posts on the front page than links.