I used to be a lot on r/travel. Back then there were posts with pictures that had upvote ls in the triple to quadruple digit range. There were also user questions, usually in the double digits.

Now the majority is just discussions that mysteriously have thousands of upvotes. And some of them quite boring. That must be bots or fakes directly by reddit. No way this happens naturally.

Is this common practice now or is that something r/travel did specifically?

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I say it as knowing that Reddit can change how upvotes work. They’ve done it in the past and it is a lot easier to change a formula over creating bots to upvote and downvote.

    Reddit has also shown its ability to frame and curate both the default steam and r/all by removing porn and limiting political posts.

    I don’t know why Reddit would deal in bots when it has more powerful tools at hand.