I’m a simple man, number go up causes endorphin release.

  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    It’s an essential component of algorithmic sorting. Even on Reddit the total isn’t important, it’s your history of regularly getting approval or other users that counts, not the absolute number. In fact giving more weight to high karma value would just created a positive feedback loop when sightly more upvoted accounts, get exponentially more exposure and this would break the sorting algorithm.