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Re:Reddit's favorite products in one place by stjohnswarts on Thursday September 08, 2022 @01:55PM (#32769213)
that was the first thing I thought of. I know the owner means well but if reddit becomes a bigger target that it already is for mass marketers then the value of the reviews there become even less important as marketers dilute the reviews and it becomes a spiral into uselessness. Maybe it could be mitigated by adding things like "commenter history" and give commenters that have been around for a while with more comments a heavier weight that news accounts that seem to only post in one or two subreddits a couple of times and then disappear. Maybe somethings like

weight ~= max(num_months_existencenum_commentscomment_score, 0 account not active in the past year) or somesuch, obviously adjusted.

Re:Reddit's favorite products in one place by pvillano on Thursday September 08, 2022 @02:32PM (#32769914)
Looria's ranking algorithm has no effect on what happens to the actual quality of content for Reddit users. Volunteer moderators cannot be expected to keep up with paid bot programmers. Paying objective moderators is essentially impossible, and the whole business model is built on harvesting review data for free anyway