• teft@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The vote counts on Reddit aren’t real. They never have been. They use an obfuscation on the vote counts in order to deter spammers and bots.

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      1 year ago

      True, but I was under the impression that was just a level of noise added. It would be interesting to know if the number of votes needed to reach the front page has dropped (in broad terms) since the API changes. I wouldn’t have thought the obfuscation would hide that?