I remember when they added the fuzzing algorithm and front page posts went from being ones with ~3.5k upvotes to becoming ones with 380k upvotes. I think everyone at the time thought it was stupid and weird and then it never went away.
It was stupid and weird because it was obviously a way to juice the fucking metrics of the site to make it seem way more active than it actually was.
Tech companies like reddit, Facebook, Xitter, and so on do this worthless shit all the time. Facebook was fined a paltry amount for faking their numbers for the 2015 pivot-to-video that killed multiple publishing houses.
I remember when they added the fuzzing algorithm and front page posts went from being ones with ~3.5k upvotes to becoming ones with 380k upvotes. I think everyone at the time thought it was stupid and weird and then it never went away.
It was stupid and weird because it was obviously a way to juice the fucking metrics of the site to make it seem way more active than it actually was.
Tech companies like reddit, Facebook, Xitter, and so on do this worthless shit all the time. Facebook was fined a paltry amount for faking their numbers for the 2015 pivot-to-video that killed multiple publishing houses.