▲ 473 ▼ Current reddit situation (programming.dev) submitted 3 years ago by starman@programming.dev to c/starwarsmemes@lemmy.world 64 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] teft@lemmy.world 18 points 3 years ago (1 child) The vote counts on Reddit aren’t real. They never have been. They use an obfuscation on the vote counts in order to deter spammers and bots. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Teppic@kbin.social 3 points 3 years ago True, but I was under the impression that was just a level of noise added. It would be interesting to know if the number of votes needed to reach the front page has dropped (in broad terms) since the API changes. I wouldn't have thought the obfuscation would hide that? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Teppic@kbin.social 3 points 3 years ago True, but I was under the impression that was just a level of noise added. It would be interesting to know if the number of votes needed to reach the front page has dropped (in broad terms) since the API changes. I wouldn't have thought the obfuscation would hide that? permalink fedilink source parent
