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Consider vote manipulation #241

Open kizyahaha opened 9 years ago

kizyahaha commented 9 years ago

Apparently, part of the reason Reddit "fuzzes" the votes (if your score is 100, the displayed might be 2,317 up and 2,217 down) is to prevent vote manipulation claiming it is harder for cheaters to determine success or failure. This might be an argument for us to not show power directly and/or number of upvotes and downvotes.

kizyahaha commented 9 years ago

Some evidence to suggest Reddit artificially manipulates votes: http://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/h0ymi/how_karma_actually_works/

kizyahaha commented 9 years ago

Interesting note about a Reddit competitor called whoaverse:

WhoaVerse has built-in mechanisms for vote manipulation prevention. New user accounts are unable to downvote submissions unless they have at least 20 Comment Contribution Points (CCP) and they are limited to 10 upvotes per day. Another feature which sets WhoaVerse apart from similar platforms is its redesigned user profiles area, which displays the comment and submission history for a user. WhoaVerse user profiles do not have voting buttons which helps reduce "downvote attacks".