https://www.wired.com/2012/07/mklopez-digg-power-user-interv...
Reddit and IMDb are mostly immune. Which is not to say that they're immune to all problems (astroturfing, brigading, personal biases, etc.).
The main change is you can post posts to your profile rather than a particular subreddit. But that's not a big feature. Back in the day people used to just create a subreddit of their username.
They skim, see if it looks okayish and give it their approval.
But it's far worse, even without a recognized names, most votes are cast without proper reading, and I'm fairly certain also by the least intelligent subsection given how often submissions are upvoted on H.N. and Reddit that are pure clickbait and demolished in the comments by people that actually read it. People that vote by and large only read the title or the first sentence and make up their mind from there.
Agreed. I was referring to Quora.
Each group trended towards catapulting a single band / musician, but it always just depended on which one in the group got the momentum first.
I wish I could find the study again but it's hard to google for.
Pretty eye opening.