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[–]SundogsPlace 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

It's interesting how a simple button can end up weaponized, LOL!

[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

It really is amazing how the use of the buttons evolved over the last 12 years reddit has been around. I remember back in the day they used to show the upvote count and downvote count individually, like how saidit shows the interesting and funny votes separately.

But then about 3 years ago the reddit admins went out of their way to remove this functionality. Meaning now the users only see the net total. So if something has zero votes, you don't know if it got 100 upvotes and 100 downvotes, or just was ignored. So that's an information loss. Which as far as I can figure was done intentionally to hide vote brigading. Which implies that the reddit admins want to cover up the (sometimes bot-run) vote brigades that are running rampant on the site, rather than act to prevent them... because it drives "engagement numbers" which looks good to advertisers, which means reddit gets more money. So they're literally endorsing the hoards of bots and shills by turning a blind eye, for profit. I think this is the main reason reddit is so messed up these days.

There's so many layers to this upvote/downvote stuff, despite how straightforward and simple it seems. The more I learn about how it works the more happy I am with the voting system we built for saidit.

[–]codywohlers[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah and if you're reddit upvotes - downvotes != score cause that would be too easy :) (plus the complications you mentioned)

They do have that dagger option that will show you comments with large upvotes and downvotes and a low score, but it's off by default.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They do have that dagger option that will show you comments with large upvotes and downvotes and a low score, but it's off by default.

Haha I never realized that was an option until right now. I thought they were going to enable it by default, but then I never heard anything. They didn't do a good job telling people it was in their preferences, if my case is any indication...

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Shills gonna hate.