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If this article was 5-10 years ago, I would have agreed with most of it, but as it stands you are absolutely correct. The Reddit algorithm now is incredibly op
by Chardok 9y ago
If this article was 5-10 years ago, I would have agreed with most of it, but as it stands you are absolutely correct.
The Reddit algorithm now is incredibly opaque with constant tinkerings that make me think the "voting" is more of a placebo button on the front page. In recent memory, there were a few incidents of /r/The_Donald fully populating the front page, all with 0 upvote scores, which came off suspiciously as if they were deeply messing with the voting system.
Where it used to be a platform where you could be assured there would be minimal censorship, it is now commonplace to "shadowban" users who go against the narrative and the rules are arbitrarily enforced to ban subreddits. (Check out /r/shitredditsays for a subreddit that constantly breaks site rules but still stands unopposed)
Reddit is obviously striving for constantly more advertising friendly platform and it has been demonstrated multiple times upvotes are easily bought and advertisers are constantly sneaking in posts disguised as users to do their "viral marketing"
No, author, Reddit is moving right towards the direction of Facebook rapidly. It is only a matter of time before they begin to lock out content behind a login page, you can already see the transition today.
- ryanlol 9y ago>there were a few incidents of /r/The_Donald fully populating the front page, all with 0 upvote scores, which came off suspiciously as if they were deeply messing with the voting system. You know that reddit doesn't actually show you vote counts, right?
- Chardok 9y agoWhat I meant was that the numbered score they had next to every post was 0, which is incredibly atypical for that to show up on the front page. And yes, Reddit removed the ability to see the number of upvotes/downvotes on any item a few years back. Just another way for them to obfuscate the actual results of a post.
- sushid 9y agoWasn't this when they were trying to ban /r/the_donald outright from /r/all? I feel like they were trying to penalize the "real" score but somehow kept that the same and accidentally set the "fake" score to zero instead.
- MoronInAHurry 9y ago> It is only a matter of time before they begin to lock out content behind a login page, you can already see the transition today. They're already doing that, it started a few months ago. It seems to be an A/B test, so if you're lucky it might not be applied to you yet, but it looks like this: https://i.redd.it/4lrxutwazc701.png https://i.redd.it/4lrxutwazc701.png