Reddit was always rotting - the scoring is the original sin - but at the start new, still sane users outpaced the infection.
If you want an inflection point it was when they removed up/down vote scores and made only the final tally visible. This was 2014, a year and a half after Swartz offed himself, but I think that's a coincidence and he had no power to stop it.
When you read a comment has 500 upvotes and 400 downvotes you think okay that's a slight majority but when you see +100 votes you think everybody super agrees. Same with downvotes. This drives a hivemind and you only need to tweak a few scores here and there to make it believe anything you want.
it was when they took investments from larry fink run hedge funds.
larry fink is even worse than soros. larry fink is a literal communist, WEF stooge, been openly pushing for social credit scores, marxism, 15 minute cities, CBDCs, a one-world government that he's on top of, all the evil shit of totalitarian governments. he's a true bolshevik. he believes in using any power you can to get to the top, and then all power you have to entrench yourself and exterminate anyone who might ever take it from you.
I always used relay for reddit, and I always saw those. Same with sorting by new, downvotes never hid anything. That's why they push their app so hard. Not just datamining, they control the environment.
They added algos to obscure voting shortly after creating subs. So, nothing inherently wrong with voting, until they made cheating easier, by claiming to make cheating harder.
Definitely after Aaron Swartz sold it but can't say how long after till it started to rot..
Reddit was always rotting - the scoring is the original sin - but at the start new, still sane users outpaced the infection.
If you want an inflection point it was when they removed up/down vote scores and made only the final tally visible. This was 2014, a year and a half after Swartz offed himself, but I think that's a coincidence and he had no power to stop it.
When you read a comment has 500 upvotes and 400 downvotes you think okay that's a slight majority but when you see +100 votes you think everybody super agrees. Same with downvotes. This drives a hivemind and you only need to tweak a few scores here and there to make it believe anything you want.
it was when they took investments from larry fink run hedge funds.
larry fink is even worse than soros. larry fink is a literal communist, WEF stooge, been openly pushing for social credit scores, marxism, 15 minute cities, CBDCs, a one-world government that he's on top of, all the evil shit of totalitarian governments. he's a true bolshevik. he believes in using any power you can to get to the top, and then all power you have to entrench yourself and exterminate anyone who might ever take it from you.
I always used relay for reddit, and I always saw those. Same with sorting by new, downvotes never hid anything. That's why they push their app so hard. Not just datamining, they control the environment.
They added algos to obscure voting shortly after creating subs. So, nothing inherently wrong with voting, until they made cheating easier, by claiming to make cheating harder.