Fuck that trash site and Power tripping mods

  • Bleys@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    One of the many, many, problems with Reddit is that 1 upvote does not equal 1 upvote. Countless times I’ve found a days old post and or a comment that’s like 15 deep in a chain that no one else is possibly viewing, and up/down voted it. The UI shows the number changing, but if you then immediately (or much later) check it in an incognito browser you often can see that it didn’t change.

    I assume it’s some weird anti bot voting algorithm, but it consistently applies to my very real accounts so it’s definitely not working as intended.

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      20 hours ago

      they definitely are monitoring the upvotes, if they can label some as a bannable or warn-able offense.

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      1 day ago

      Some years ago, they changed the algorithm. It used to be hundreds and low thousands votes, then they changed and the vote counts went up thousands. Somehow they weighted votes but I don’t remember any specifics. I’m sure there are still some posts out there with conversations.