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.
Yeah “karma” isn’t karma if the number doesn’t change. It has been bullshit for awhile. When Steven “Spez” Huffman made it so you couldn’t downvote his, the mods, or other chump ass users into oblivion because of their useless fucking takes on things the site quit having any air of democracy. It is all just a power grab for useless brownie points to make them look better when in all actuality puddles have more depth than most Reddit users anymore.
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.
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.
Yeah “karma” isn’t karma if the number doesn’t change. It has been bullshit for awhile. When Steven “Spez” Huffman made it so you couldn’t downvote his, the mods, or other chump ass users into oblivion because of their useless fucking takes on things the site quit having any air of democracy. It is all just a power grab for useless brownie points to make them look better when in all actuality puddles have more depth than most Reddit users anymore.
they definitely are monitoring the upvotes, if they can label some as a bannable or warn-able offense.
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.