When did reddit shift from free thought to obedience and boot licking corporations for “vaccines”?
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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.
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.