>I don't understand why you would even publicize this. Just stop counting those users' votes, if that's what you want to do? Those user's votes don't matter, s

>I don't understand why you would even publicize this. Just stop counting those users' votes, if that's what you want to do? Those user's votes don't matter, scaring the userbase into narrowing their overton windows of acceptable reddit voting is what matters. More broadly Reddit wants to be seen as taking action. The incentive structure facing that company rewards loudly making a slight improvement to the site over quietly making a huge improvement.