Re:Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning
by jedberg on Thursday August 08, 2019 @09:12PM
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Fwiw the 66% like it was legit. When a post got popular it attracted downvotes from other submitters who thought downvoting everything else would boost their submission. If you looked at posts in niche subreddits they regularly had 90%+.
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Re:Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning
by Figs on Thursday August 08, 2019 @09:58PM
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I would have to do more research than I care to to prove it, but I'm pretty sure from my personal recollection that the 66% phenomenon ended after this change: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5gvd6b/score... -- assuming my memory is correct, that suggests it was an artifact of the anti-cheat techniques being used. (Not an intended one though, obviously, if you guys believed 66% was legit before the recalc.)