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Actually reddit are responsible. Their karma/voting scheme is designed to create an overall hivemind in their users.
A 51% opinion gets positive score and looks very popular, a 49% opinion gets a negative score and looks like a garbage take. By hiding the total votes they make it impossible to tell if +100 is a popular opinion or a 51%.
They use this hivemind creator and tip the scale to make it a liberal hivemind, like when they manually altered the code to bias against The_Donald because it was >50% popular with users and creating a pro-Trump hivemind.
If they want to not be held responsible they can at least show vote totals, if not something pro-discourse like downvotes being valued less so you get 51% opinions with 49% right under instead of buried.
It’s not just the karma/voting
Reddit admins personally banned the_donald for minor infractions that are carried out daily on other subreddits.
During St George Floyd (peace be upon him) They also changed the definition of racism so that only anti-white racism and bigotry is allowed on the site. (their definition of racism was distorted into “racism against a minority” (somehow ignoring whites are a GLOBAL minority))
This is true, but it must also be stated that they gave the admins an excuse by IIRC ostentatiously refusing to comply with instructions - many of which are stupid and/or double standards, intended (I think) to get you to tell them to go F themselves, so they have an excuse to ban you.
51% will show up as 'controversial'. You can also see it in the percentage of votes on posts.
I'm not sure what the 'controversial dagger' math is. I think it's by close total up/down votes or something like that, not a percent, but in any case it's rarely shown on comments that are definitely both significantly upvoted and downvoted. Mostly only seen on low total score comments. Also turned off by default.
In any case 51% is for illustrative purposes; real divisive issues are probably more like 2/3 and 1/3 because people participate more in forums where they agree with the hivemind.