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That's begging the question. Posts with negative scores are completely banned from the front/hot page because of this bug/feature/discontinuity. You can't justi
by Camillo 13y ago
That's begging the question. Posts with negative scores are completely banned from the front/hot page because of this bug/feature/discontinuity. You can't justify it with itself.
What you can say is that you want posts to disappear from the hot page as soon as they go to -1, in which case I'll say that it's more than a little weird for the first voter to hold so much power.
- waylandsmithers 13y agoMaybe some civil disobedience will get their attention. What about a script that automatically downvotes every new post?
- aroch 13y agoThat's a good way to get banned
- flexd 13y agoA lot of accounts + a lot of different IPs would get around that.
- jedberg 13y agoNo, it wouldn't. Do you really think you're the first person to try and game the system like that? You know who else tries that? Spammers who think that down voting every submission but their own actually works.
- flexd 13y agoI am not, and I have no plans to do that. But for the particular problem, it would be a solution, provided Reddit did not have any mechanics in place to prevent that exact thing. And it would be stupid to assume you do not. I have no interest in doing anything like it, I browse Reddit a lot. PS: Totally unrelated to this, but please look into the API returning a ton of HTTP 503/504 gateway timeouts. It's been happening to me across several servers in different regions of the world.
- jedberg 13y ago> Totally unrelated to this, but please look into the API returning a ton of HTTP 503/504 gateway timeouts. It's been happening to me across several servers in different regions of the world. Ironically, that's probably the rate limiting blocking you. Are you hitting the API more often than once every 30 seconds?
- flexd 13y agoI have a cron job that looks at comments in a thread about every 2-5 minutes. At most it should be making a call to find a subreddit and then a call to find the comments.
- jedberg 13y agoYou would just blend in with all the spammers that try to do this already.
- msellout 13y agoI think the latter is exactly what they're saying. It's not weird. What question is being begged?
- Camillo 13y agoUsed in the original meaning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question