Re:Evolving beyond 100B recommendations a day at Reddit
by dqv on Monday May 17, 2021 @06:35PM
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I used to be an active mod on a somewhat active subreddit, not going to say which one. I can say that it was rather suspicious to get pinged to an AHS thread made about a post that was less than 7 minutes old. There's a report button under every post, so the idea that this person couldn't have just used that instead of posting a big dramatic post makes me highly suspicious of AHS.
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Re:Evolving beyond 100B recommendations a day at Reddit
by munk-a on Monday May 17, 2021 @07:15PM
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AHS could have the best intentions but karma addicted folks jumping on such a post to get a blitz of upvotes is always going to happen.
I'm amazed that the reddit mobile app pushes notifications about upvote thresholds by default - it is incredibly trashy.
Re:Evolving beyond 100B recommendations a day at Reddit
by dqv on Monday May 17, 2021 @07:38PM
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I was pretty surprised because I just looked back at the AHS thread and there are hundreds of upvotes in there. It must've been euphoric
Re:Evolving beyond 100B recommendations a day at Reddit
by ceejayoz on Monday May 17, 2021 @07:14PM
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There's no feedback loop on reports. They disappear into the ether, possibly never to be acted upon. It shouldn't be surprising users have zero faith they'll accomplish anything on their own.
Re:Evolving beyond 100B recommendations a day at Reddit
by dqv on Monday May 17, 2021 @07:36PM
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Sure, but I think it's fair to wait longer than 10 minutes before doing a big post maligning a subreddit for "letting hate slide". The post being 7 minutes old before it was posted on AHS is not an exaggeration.