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I don't think this is accurate. A huge portion of reddit users use /r/all, and therefore the content presented there is what a huge portion of the users see. If

I don't think this is accurate. A huge portion of reddit users use /r/all, and therefore the content presented there is what a huge portion of the users see. If the admins are artificially influencing what it seen there, it's fair to called it admin-selected, or at the very least, admin-influenced. Removing /r/all would definitely cause a very big change in the traffic patterns. Non-default subreddit traffic would go down tremendously.

Dylan16807 10y ago
In the technical sense that the admins wrote the equations, it has always been "admin-influenced", and the new version is influenced no more than the old version. The the more straightforward interpretation of "admin-influenced" is that the admins have any control over particular stories or subreddits, and that interpretation is false. The old algorithm has no editorial control. A theoretical algorithm that allows one story per trending subreddit also has no editorial control. The current algorithm that's in between those two extremes also has no editorial control. Calling it "admin-selected" is wrongheaded and trying to invoke false outrage.
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