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Re:Testing the effects of hiding downvotes in r/politics by SpikeDad on Saturday January 06, 2018 @10:52AM (#16085736)
Their methodology was garbage considering that mobile users were not affected (since they can't hide down voting on most mobile clients).

In any case WRT to political Reddits down votes are essential for subscribers to remove troll posts (which are very frequent) since mods are hesitant to remove posts even when they're obviously intended to incense the subscribers.

It's a difficult situation to try to make a decision.

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Re:Testing the effects of hiding downvotes in r/politics by anon11082016 on Saturday January 06, 2018 @11:55AM (#16086059)
Just curious, isn't there some sort of "contest" or competition mode that hides scores? Or is that only for a particular post and can't be applied for all posts going forward and hence not applicable here?
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