ShinhoshiReddit implements hidden "credit scores" only visible to admins
AshtearArchived link so we’re not sending any traffic Reddit’s way.
I love the “if you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about” admin response downthread, too. They’ve really gone full mask-off over there, haven’t they?
They have their own happy cheering crowd, so nothing to worry about from their pov.
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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
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?
It’s called Reddit “vote fuzzing”
Lots of posts talk about it, here’s the quickest one I found: apps.uk/why-do-reddit-votes-fluctuate/
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.
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)