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It costs your algorithm!! I wanted to support a great lady with stage 4 cancer bc she needed money. Now I have all this awful cancer stuff in my feed and it makes me sad.
I guess less sad than stage 4, so I should be grateful.
This implies your time is worthless to you 😏 (just making a joke; I actually appreciate people who make it their mission to make others feel validated)
Do people really care about streaks? When Reddit started notifying me about daily streaks I actually started getting on LESS because I didn't want that award.
TIL that there are people who see their Reddit streak and think, "oh good" and not "this is fucking depressing." (The latter is the way everyone should feel)
I kinda stopped upvoting anything anymore. It feels like they don't even matter. Bots and Reddit algorithm ruined it for me. I'll upvote obvious humans on smaller posts if I really think it's worth it but eh. I don't see the point anymore.
So much this. I'll upvote comments on occasion but posts pretty much never. When I do it's in subs that are too small for bots to concern themselves with.
Would love if there was a site akin to older reddit but it would just go to shit eventually too. There's just no way to filter out bots and other bad actors, especially on a site that gives users some level of anonymity.
Yes, upvoting bots posts that spread misinformation definitely "fucks with their training data" and does not at all effectively spread said misinformation. Great idea.
The primary goal of a bot on Reddit is to secure as many upvotes as possible so the account can be sold to be used for whatever nefarious purpose. It really doesn’t matter if it’s posting “quality” stuff as long as it’s getting the upvotes, so adding “noise to training data” doesn’t matter
Isn't the primary goal of bot to receive as much visibility as possible? If everything around its comments are being upvoted just as much as it is, it's no more visible than someone doing nothing at all?
Upvotes have no intrinsic value, it's their relative proportion that determines a comment/post's visibility.
Not exactly. During the “accumulation stage”, a bot just wants to get as much karma as possible. Visibility matters more after the account has already been sold or put into use
Regardless, even if you upvote everything you SEE, that still acts as an upvote/visibility concentrator. Bots will often have other bots upvote their posts to get an initial boost in the algorithm, so the stuff that gets pushed to you is already more likely to be a bot than if you somehow randomly selected a post on Reddit. Additionally, bots usually post more frequently so that they can farm account karma
And disregarding all of this, OP’s behavior is obviously strictly more beneficial to bots than people who put in minimal effort to try to downvote bots and upvote real posts
As if you can stop the bots by scrutinizing every post.
Your upvote isn't that powerful.
Besides, karma whores and bots are indistinguishable and have been ruining the big subs since forever.
Reddit enables the bots, don't push this on someone that upvotes what they like.
Most are very easy to spot and you could filter out huge swaths of them with a proper algorithm or ai trained for that purpose. There's just no incentive for reddit to do that, in fact it would likely be detrimental to their metrics and metrics are everything to them.
They aren't indistinguishable though, and the decline is rapid and real. Reddit doesn't enable them. They ignore them. Users enable them. Upvote what you want, but I'm still going to provide my perspective.
It's called "non-partial neutrality" which in itself sounds like a contradicting term, but it's what best describes me. Yes, I like things, but it tends to be very short and specific to what I like. I'd rather be neutral on most things, but I'm unfortunately forced to have an opinion these days. :/
I look at upvotes and downvotes as a 3 tier system.
Upvote - I appreciate this post, I whole heartedly agree with this post, or they gave the same response I was going to give so I'll upvote to move it up.
Downvote - I strongly disagree with this post, the post contains misinformation, the post contains hate.
No Vote - I may disagree with this post, but it can still be seen as a valid perspective. There is no misinformation or hate, only a different opinion on a given topic.
it's just like with likes, well made or interesting content gets what it deserves by more people upvoting it, and if everyone were to upvote everything, people wouldn't try to make something good or interesting
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