• Shinhoshi@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Posts can’t go below zero score

    There’s also artificial Reddit votes where someone upvotes and Reddit adds a downvote to delete their vote

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      1 year ago

      Posts can’t go below zero score

      On old Reddit if you look up in the upper left of a post, it will give you a “% upvoted” figure, and that’s what I was referring to, just so we’re clear. But you’re right, in terns of actual (sort of) vote count, posts can’t go below zero.

      There’s also artificial Reddit votes where someone upvotes and Reddit adds a downvote to delete their vote

      That one is new to me. Though I do not doubt it: it goes hand in hand with all the other vote manipulation they’ve gotten up to lately. If I may ask, where did you see this?

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        1 year ago

        I haven’t been on since June, but I noticed it for the last 1-2 years or so. Especially on the smaller subs where any given comment would only get a handful of upvotes. Someone would write a long helpful explanation, I upvote, and nothing happens. The score would stay at 1 or whatever.

        It’s not like I was spamming votes either. I would make a point of only voting on one comment per post so my vote would count. But it was still usually 50/50. Vote fuzzing was there for years, but this was different. The comments that were less popular seemed to be affected the most.

        • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          No, individual vote fuzzing started years ago, and is a separate factor. This is new. What I am speaking of started within the last year, and involves the percentage upvoted to not dip below a certain threshold. To reiterate:

          On old Reddit if you look up in the upper left of a post, it will give you a “% upvoted” figure, and that’s what I was referring to, just so we’re clear.

          • Shinhoshi@lemmy.worldOP
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            1 year ago

            I use Old Reddit myself (you can see my link in OP was an Old Reddit link).

            I was not aware of manipulation of the percentage beyond the effect vote fuzzing would have on it (e.g. if you had 5000 upvotes + 1000 fake ones, and 500 downvotes + 1000 fake ones, this would affect the percentage)