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>It also doesn't take a small nationstate to stir shit up, it just takes a vocal determined minority Very true. It doesn't really take many upvotes to make it
by danford 12y ago
>It also doesn't take a small nationstate to stir shit up, it just takes a vocal determined minority
Very true. It doesn't really take many upvotes to make it to the front page of a sub-reddit, just a high up-to-down ratio. Reddit would be an easy target for manipulation by a small group if they really wanted to.
My idea: have a default post sorting algorithm, but create an add-on that allows users to create their own sorting algorithm. Most likely users will find the best algorithm, share it, and spread it, but their would also be many algorithms in use, so you have multiple systems you would have to game.
- pavel_lishin 12y agoWould that scale to the Reddit userbase? Worst case scenario is one algorithm per user, 120k algorithms on /r/bitcoin alone.
- Houshalter 12y agoThey could have it done locally.
- Houshalter 12y agoThat's a really cool idea but I don't see it ever happening. The admins are really conservative about major site features. It took them years to fix the sign error bug on the sorting algorithm when it was publicly known. Only comments are ranked by upvote to downvote ratio. Posts are ranked by total upvotes plus the time.