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They didn't "just make" anything. They've had vote fuzzing, shadow banning and more from early days. As both the techcrunch post and the actual reddit post say
by colonelxc 10y ago
They didn't "just make" anything. They've had vote fuzzing, shadow banning and more from early days.
As both the techcrunch post and the actual reddit post say, the rules around it were complicated and hard to reason about. They've basically refactored and come up with a simpler set of rules.
- chrismarlow9 10y agoI even recall a vulnerability write up where someone figured out that by using the "Show me posts with more than X upvotes" feature and a counter you could determine what a posts real score was.