Vote manipulation on reddit (post)
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I enjoyed reading this post:
http://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/36wwr6/the_types_of_manipulation_on_votebased_forums
Very interesting breakdown of vote manipulation on reddit - how it works and why do people and corporations do it (hint: money).
Also this followup comment:
http://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/36wwr6/the_types_of_manipulation_on_votebased_forums/cri45k1Where he describes how he tried to come up with a better system and failed. Also thoughts on Hacker News and Stack Exchange.
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Further reading: the Wilson Score.
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This is exactly why Discourse has no downboats.
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le upvoat says yes :^)
Filed under: #cringe
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Please tell me that was deliberate…
I prefer to think that the @accalia's have infected the discodevs.
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Interesting. I suppose tags are better than likes after all.
That thing he said about how people tend to mostly vote for this they agree with definitely matches my experience. Back on twitter, when I realized how much ⭐s meant to all the favstar.fm wannabes, I tried for a while to identify and star good tweets, but it got too much for me—I'd end up with analysis paralysis “I guess I like that, but do I like like it?”—and I ended up figuring out how to just go with my gut, even though that did mean that my likes basically became arbitrary and meaningless. Often the best tweets, the ones that I would be thinking about for days after I read them, didn't get a like from me, because they didn't have that instant appeal. Or other days, I'd look through the likes I had given out and think “I don't like any of these? Wtf?”
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WRONG SOLUTION #2: Score = Average rating = (Positive ratings) / (Total ratings)
Sites that make this mistake: Amazon.comSites that make this mistake: literally 99% of them. It's infuriating how "sort by score" is so useless everywhere.
Some have "sort by number of ratings" which is actually pretty useful. Or filters: either sort by score and filter items with less than X ratings, or sort by number or ratings and filter items with a low score.
Those are just approximations to the Wilson Score, but they're also much easier to implement.
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Still, even if you can game reddit a little, at least it's not news media.
I think there's two extremes here: thinking that everything you read is totally legit, and thinking everything is totally fake. And if you look at the original article, or even the glitter bomb link I just posted you'll see that even though people are trying damn hard to get their content in front of your eyes all the time, it's pretty difficult to actually reach people unless you're offering them what they want.
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http://i.imgur.com/8txN8N1.png
courtesy of /r/bestofreports
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okay these are pretty good
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That must be fake - there are moderators doing their jobs.
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okay these are pretty good
Can someone explain what I'm looking at here?
Filed Under: I didn't reddit
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Can someone explain what I'm looking at here?
People posting silly flags. Kinda like here.
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Only I think we're funnier.
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You mean everyone else thinks they're funnier instead? Boo!
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I think we're funnier than Reddit but then again I think a stomach virus is funnier than Reddit.
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Depends what part of reddit. /r/funny is one of the least funny parts of the entire internet, but I've found some pretty good stuff on things like /r/photoshopbattles
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/r/funny
it's not so much that it's unfunny, more that it's trying too hard to be funny and that's breaking any funny that manages to slip through.
some of the comment battles there are pretty funny though.
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I've always found the funniest stuff to be that which flows naturally; proper humour is emergent, not forced.
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indeed! that's why generally i don't find stand up comedians funny.
except for eddie izard. that man is hilarious!
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I'm a little surprised that there isn't more cross-pollination between (W)TDWTF and r/talesfromtechsupport.