• Socsa
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    9 months ago

    They changed to to massively inflate the displayed vote totals though. Old reddit was showing actual vote totals with some fuzzing. The algorithm change in 2016 or whatever was to reflect engagement and engagement velocity in the displayed post scores, which is how we got the huge 100k+ top posts. If they have changed away from that I haven’t seen anything about it.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      to reflect engagement and engagement velocity in the displayed post scores

      Ah, a bullshit artist! Did you bullshit last week? Did you try to bullshit last week?

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      Just another reason why free software is the way to go.

      We could literally look at their source code and put any speculation to rest if it were free.