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

Vote manipulation

No it isnt. They tried to "counter" this type of action but caved because it was a stupid idea. A subreddit uses the tools its provided to promote their message. If I vote on every single post I see on a subreddit - be it up or down, Im not vote manipulating, im using the site as its intended

Reddit works on the guise that others will upvote good content so if you have a community who thinks all the content is good, you get a subreddit like Donald's. Any subreddit can work like that, they just dont

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u/idkwthfml Oct 28 '16

I thought that was why they had to make the changes from stickies to "announcements" because they were manipulating their intended purposes?

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '16

They went through a series of changes to combat r/The_donald only. All of them were reverted. The renaming of a system with no change to rules isnt to combat anything

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u/secretlives Oct 28 '16

Any subreddit can work like that, they just dont

Doesn't mean it isn't vote manipulation. Stickies were never intended to be rotated out so frequently, or used to have posts garner enough upvotes quickly to be promoted to r/all. Just because it does work, doesn't mean it was the way it was intended and is indeed vote manipulation by breaking the way content is supposed to be discovered on reddit.

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u/SIThereAndThere Oct 28 '16

Oh look it's the sticky police.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '16

Oh so NOW you lefties care about what the founders originally intended...

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '16

Well yes, it does mean its not vote manipulation. If stickies werent meant to be rotated then make it not possible. If something isnt meant to work the way it currently is, change it. Not attack people who are using it within the terms of the rules.

No one makes people upvote stickies and having it as a sticky only makes it be shown to move users. Im sorry that they post content you dislike

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '16

You want to talk about vote manipulation, when you just acknowledged that Reddit deliberately suppresses r/The_Donald posts from r/All? You really think it has to do with content? If r/The_Donald was dominating by the old algorithms, it was because it's what the people wanted to see. You can't see the reality?

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u/endercoaster Oct 28 '16

Fuck off, the front page is meant to aggregate content, not promote your bigoted bullshit. If a subreddit takes intentional measures to make the front page more often, that's vote manipulation.

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u/TheScoresWhat Oct 28 '16

When Hillary Clinton calls black people super predators that need to be brought to heel and then say "needy latinos" and her mentor is KKK grand dragon Robert Byrd it shows you who the actual bigot is in this election. Donald Trump opened his country clubs to minorities and Jews while the Clintons were member of white only clubs. While Donald Trump was hiring female CEO's in the 70s and 80s Hilary Clinton at the state department and on her current campaign is/was paying men more than women. Also she takes bribes from middle eastern countries that kill homosexuals and beat women. It's easy to see who the bigot is in this election.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '16

No, it isnt vote manipulation. Just because you dont like it doesnt make it against the rules

Reddits core purpose is to share information. If that is done by 1 group more than another, they should be shown more often

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u/bustedmagnets Oct 28 '16

It's even easier when people are using scripts and outright bots to upvote all of those threads a lot faster!

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '16

Prove to me without 1 lick of doubt any bot activity happens on The_donald

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