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[+] 52 points 1 year ago (6 children)
  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    It do be like that. Last time I was scrolling I'd see the most obvious LLM generated threads and wonder who'd respond to this trash. Well it's other bots with your occasional oblivious human in-between.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    I really think that Reddit is completely inflating upvotes on posts. A post can have 50,000 upvotes, but there's only like three comments that are really big.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh yeah, this has been going on for more than a decade. 4 minute old post with 3000 up votes, zero comments.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I mean some of thst was organic, and something pushed for at the begining of that phase. used to be a common refrain, 'don't like what you see on the front page, search by new and change that' I used to spend like 20-30 mins every morning doing just that, sorting all:new and just up/down voting- so when I came back later there was more interesting threads with a comment section to engage in

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Changing from the original upvote scheme, where the absolute peak was Obama with like 10 or 12k, to now, where we see upvote in the six figures, was a huge mistake over there, really watered everything down. One of many mistakes along the way.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Most top voted/awarded or near top voted comments you see on the larger subs (and even some of the smaller niche subs now) are from bot controlled accounts. Humans that try to alert others that it's a bot comment often get banned for doing so. Happened to me countless times. It's really bad in r/politics in particular.

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