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Re:Reddit overhauls upvote algorithm to thwart cheaters by minimaxir on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @01:12PM (#13124691)
That's unlikely.

For clarification, only the breakdown of up/downs was hidden, not the overall score, and it was hidden because when people saw posts with tons of downvotes, it invited more downvotes.

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Re:Reddit overhauls upvote algorithm to thwart cheaters by coreyp_1 on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @01:47PM (#13125034)
Alexis Ohanian visits Notre Dame, & specifically meets with my advisor. We show them what we are working on in regards to analyzing Reddit (probably not the wisest thing to show them a work in progress, before all the data is collected). They're not thrilled about it. A few weeks later, a crucial part of the information is gone.

You tell me.

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Re:Reddit overhauls upvote algorithm to thwart cheaters by minimaxir on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @01:51PM (#13125067)
The change happened in 2014 (http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/28hjga/reddit...), when Ohanian had less of an affiliation with Reddit.
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Re:Reddit overhauls upvote algorithm to thwart cheaters by coreyp_1 on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @01:52PM (#13125082)
That's also when he came to Notre Dame.
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