Comment on One of the best features of lemmy is that it lets you see individual upvote / downvote counts
ch00f@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Reddit obfuscating vote counts was part of its “vote fuzzing” feature. The goal was to make it impossible for ninja banned accounts to know if their votes were actually being counted. So banned people/bots would keep using their banned accounts rather than make a new one.
gregorum@lemm.ee 9 months ago
that was the idea, anyway. of course, anyone using a 3rd-party app was able to get the real vote counts.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 9 months ago
That was the idea, until Reddit realised the potential of manipulating vote counts for their own benefit.
gregorum@lemm.ee 9 months ago
also true, but that’s a whooooole other load of spezshit.
spezshit-- bullshit, but from spez