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1500 people hitting up arrow because the poster is an admin is believable to me given Reddit's size.
1500 people hitting up arrow because the poster is an admin is believable to me given Reddit's size.
The score does not correlate directly w/ number of upvotes
It is close enough, especially for content that is not likely to be down voted.
It's not a r = 1 correlation, but it's definitely strongly correlated.
This seems likely to me as the same thing seems to occur when a moderator on a small subreddit makes a post (even without making it stickied). Users seem to take it upon themselves to upvote out of reverence.