You mean from /r/all? Personally I think it's quite strange that these submissions from highly polarizing subreddits often outperform stuff for general audience

You mean from /r/all? Personally I think it's quite strange that these submissions from highly polarizing subreddits often outperform stuff for general audience (like /r/pics), some normalization quirks perhaps (displayed scores are heavily normalized, real ones for top posts are 100 000+ [1]). [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/29j5uh/reddit_still_artificially_introduces_downvotes_on/cilwjgn?context=2 https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/29j5uh/redd...