Reddit voting system?
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It’s just a lot of chance. My partner posts a lot of her art on there. Something she spends hours can get only a few hundred upvotes and then something she did just go use up the paint on the pallet gets in the thousands
just can’t predict it
just can’t predict it
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The way to get mass load of upvotes as a female artist is take a photo of yourself in-front of the art.
The way to get mass load of upvotes as a female artist is take a photo of yourself in-front of the art.
I did joke to her that a bit of cleavage goes a long way online, she didn’t like my advice
Unfortunately it's a good system in principle but prone to abuse. You're meant to use the voting buttons for "Contributes to Discussion" and "Doesn't contribute to disussion". People just use them as agree/disagree, which funnily enough ends up in a reduced amount of discussion.
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Its "Upvote if you agree/want to fall into line" "Downvote to express disapproval/don't wish to stand out"
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The smaller/niche the sub is, the better they tend to be. With much more balanced discussion and actual decent content.
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People on there will down-vote you regardless of logic if what you post doesn't align with their worldview politically.
Also this:
Also this:
Have you not seen youtube comments and video votes? Even a video which is 100% wholesome in every way such as a kid surviving cancer or a dog excitedly doing what dogs do will have a mass of downvotes. Some people are just so dull and soulless that they can't stand to see happiness anywhere.
It depends on the sub to be honest. You can find any kind of bias you like if you look in the right place and the voting system just seems to exacerbate the echo chamber effect within each sub.
It was more in general tbh, of course if you dive into specific sub sections you'll find upvoted comments on even extreme right posts. I'm mostly talking about the comment sections of the popular threads that you see on the home page without filters. I'm not saying it's a bad thing either, it's just a trend I've noticed.
browsing reddit the other day I noticed "the top broadcast right now" was some woman playing the piano.I did joke to her that a bit of cleavage goes a long way online, she didn’t like my advice
The camera was placed at the side of the piano at about the same height as the womans breast and you could barely see the piano keys for the womans breasts taking up most of the screen.
it's pathetic, don't get your partners to lower themselves to this standard please.
Reddit is awful now. It's just propaganda and censorship.
Someone also discovered that 92 of the top 500 subs are controlled by the same 5 mods, and they all take money behind the scenes to push agendas. Right now it's the suppression of anything anti CCP.
Someone also discovered that 92 of the top 500 subs are controlled by the same 5 mods, and they all take money behind the scenes to push agendas. Right now it's the suppression of anything anti CCP.
They aren't suppressing very well then. The hong Kong riots had extensive topics and were on the front page daily. I've heard about the alleged ccp censorship before but my own experience is there is plenty of anti ccp there.
I can not stand the place. The voting system encourages attention seekers in the popular Reddits who on the most part harvest old content to repost. The smaller ones turn in to echo chambers where anything against the mob held view gets down voted off the boards. I thought the smaller niche interests would be nice but I see posts asking for general advice or help down voted too. I remember once seeing a very niche topic in my line of work and provided detailed help backed by vendor documentation and I get downvoted and a third party trying to argue with me. Not sure why I bothered.
There's been a few reports in the last year or two about how the Chinese government uses 200,000+ accounts on Twitter (and presumably other platforms) in a coordinated effort to influence opinion on social media. Western intelligence is too busy being conned into acting like it's the 1980's and the Soviet Union(Russia) are still carrying for flag for world communism though. It's probably hard for our governments to admit they're a hostile nation when they've spent decades building them up at their own citizens' expense though.
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Ah, that’s your first mistake!
I haven’t browsed by ‘popular’ for a long time.
+1 Loads of posts about the Tiananmen Square massacre as well.