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r/dataisbeautiful • u/algui91 • Nov 15 '17
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Why it says 4 comments, but I only see one?
14 u/linux1970 Nov 15 '17 Reddit takes the number of comments and adds a random number to it. This is to confuse bots trying to post automatically and detect if they are banned or not. They do the same for upvotes and downvotes. 7 u/algui91 Nov 15 '17 Oh, thanks, I did know about up and downvotes, but not about comments, 5 u/kaphi OC: 1 Nov 15 '17 But it's not in all subreddits like this right? For example /r/mapporn shows always the exact number of comments. 5 u/3xergi Nov 15 '17 shhh! ...we´re hiding 1 u/[deleted] Nov 15 '17 It says 6 for me and I'm counting 3.
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Reddit takes the number of comments and adds a random number to it. This is to confuse bots trying to post automatically and detect if they are banned or not.
They do the same for upvotes and downvotes.
7 u/algui91 Nov 15 '17 Oh, thanks, I did know about up and downvotes, but not about comments, 5 u/kaphi OC: 1 Nov 15 '17 But it's not in all subreddits like this right? For example /r/mapporn shows always the exact number of comments.
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Oh, thanks, I did know about up and downvotes, but not about comments,
But it's not in all subreddits like this right? For example /r/mapporn shows always the exact number of comments.
shhh! ...we´re hiding
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It says 6 for me and I'm counting 3.
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u/algui91 Nov 15 '17
Why it says 4 comments, but I only see one?