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>Sometimes I wonder what would happen if reddit got rid of the upvote button and only allowed posts to be down votted. That might actually make things worse. A
by eurleif 14y ago
>Sometimes I wonder what would happen if reddit got rid of the upvote button and only allowed posts to be down votted.
That might actually make things worse. Astroturfers would systematically downvote everyone else, while legitimate users would usually only downvote a small handful of things.
- gcr 14y agoIf that happens, it could make it easier to identify them. Reddit already has quite sophisticated spam detection algorithms.