Nothing you see on reddit is “organic”!

  • Kairos@lemmy.today
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    3 days ago

    I really think that Reddit is completely inflating upvotes on posts. A post can have 50,000 upvotes, but there’s only like three comments that are really big.

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      3 days ago

      Oh yeah, this has been going on for more than a decade. 4 minute old post with 3000 up votes, zero comments.

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        I mean some of thst was organic, and something pushed for at the begining of that phase. used to be a common refrain, ‘don’t like what you see on the front page, search by new and change that’ I used to spend like 20-30 mins every morning doing just that, sorting all:new and just up/down voting- so when I came back later there was more interesting threads with a comment section to engage in

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      Changing from the original upvote scheme, where the absolute peak was Obama with like 10 or 12k, to now, where we see upvote in the six figures, was a huge mistake over there, really watered everything down. One of many mistakes along the way.