Yeah reddit is full of shady tricks like that, either as design choices, admin policies, or by mod coalitions of major subreddits. Edit: And probably via othe

Yeah reddit is full of shady tricks like that, either as design choices, admin policies, or by mod coalitions of major subreddits. Edit: And probably via other ways I haven’t heard of. So much so, and considering it has gone uncorrected for many years, that it seems likely that’s the intended purpose of the system, to dupe naive teenagers and other susceptible groups.