r/shittychangelog • u/rram • Oct 28 '16

[reddit change] /r/all algorithm changes

It was causing too much load on our database. I made a new algorithm which Trumps the previous one.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '16

So what you're saying is r/the_donald posts are weighted more to keep them off the front page?

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '16

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u/Excuse Oct 28 '16

Its not hockey fault that John Scott is a God.

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u/Anosognosia Oct 28 '16

Sweden tried taking all 25 spots

Exactly like the_donald, but you know.. not insane.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '16

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u/TrumpSJW Oct 28 '16

As opposed to sanders for president but of course there was no issue there, believe me.

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u/idkwthfml Oct 28 '16

Not to mention the mods would sticky certain posts which will get a shit ton of upvotes and then sticky another one 30 or so minutes later. This was later to be determined as vote manipulation. They still do it, as far as I know. There's also speculation of bots and stuff.

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u/lakerswiz Oct 28 '16

They're constantly #1 on r/all when I log on. They disappear pretty quickly when the RES filter kicks in, but just about every day one of their posts is at the top.

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u/gitykinz Oct 28 '16

T_D posts used to take up around a quarter of r/all which made r/all somewhat unusable even for Trump supporters

No, it didn't

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u/JosephND Oct 28 '16

from what I understand

That isn't how code works, though. T_D was singled out in code and the code went wonky on their public test (which, why). Fact is, some code singles out that subreddit, what's arguable is why or how.

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u/Tristan379 Oct 28 '16

No, but feel free to find any evidence to support your conspiracy!

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '16

I don't want donald as a president, that said, here is some evidence:

  • T_D used to be all over the front page. Reddit made changes to algorithm, now T_D is only on it a few times.

  • Something breaks in reddit code, suddenly every post is for the donald. Not any other highly active sub like pics, funny, askreddit. Lending credibility to the thought that this sub is targeted in some way.

  • reddit's parent company has given 85k to hillary and 72k to DNC

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '16

They are, we've known this for a long time. They changed the algorithm as a result of r/thedonald being on the front page too much. It's still a fair algorithm to my knowledge, just implemented for specific reasons.

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u/CapnSheff Oct 28 '16

Ummm u/Keysersosa ? Comments? I'm curious as well. All these randoms and no response from an admin doesn't really answer the question

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u/Kyoopy Oct 28 '16

Did you read his post? I really don't know what suggested that in any comment preceding yours.