Vote manipulation on reddit (post)

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?”

anonymous234

WRONG SOLUTION #2: Score = Average rating = (Positive ratings) / (Total ratings)
Sites that make this mistake: Amazon.com

Sites 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.

Buddy

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.

riking

http://i.imgur.com/8txN8N1.png

courtesy of /r/bestofreports

riking

okay these are pretty good

http://i.imgur.com/OdyTULn.png

loopback0

That must be fake - there are moderators doing their jobs.

boomzilla

@riking said:

okay these are pretty good

Can someone explain what I'm looking at here?

Filed Under: I didn't reddit

Maciejasjmj

@boomzilla said:

Can someone explain what I'm looking at here?

People posting silly flags. Kinda like here.

Arantor

Only I think we're funnier.

dkf

You mean everyone else thinks they're funnier instead? Boo!

Arantor

I think we're funnier than Reddit but then again I think a stomach virus is funnier than Reddit.

Jaloopa

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

accalia

@Jaloopa said:

/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.

RaceProUK

I've always found the funniest stuff to be that which flows naturally; proper humour is emergent, not forced.

accalia

indeed! that's why generally i don't find stand up comedians funny.

except for eddie izard. that man is hilarious!

hungrier

I'm a little surprised that there isn't more cross-pollination between (W)TDWTF and r/talesfromtechsupport.