Ajreil t1_j1mizmi wrote on December 25, 2022 at 4:58 PM

Reply to comment by Damaso87 in Cloudhiker: Randomly discover the most interesting, weird or funny websites of the internet like in the old StumbleUpon days by theKovah

Reddit's upvote system is much better than forums. They essentially had /new and top/all-time as sorting options.

Algorithmic feeds are a war crime.

Damaso87 t1_j1mjejf wrote on December 25, 2022 at 5:02 PM

Does an upvote system need to exist though? There wasnt* need for that in a discussion based forum with actual moderators. It wasn't a slam dunking karma game.

Ajreil t1_j1mjmx7 wrote on December 25, 2022 at 5:04 PM

Upvotes are good. Karma was a mistake.

ThroawayPartyer t1_j1nxi2i wrote on December 25, 2022 at 11:41 PM

Aren't you contradicting yourself? Reddit karma is what drives its algorithmic feed.

Ajreil t1_j1o0hic wrote on December 26, 2022 at 12:06 AM

Using upvotes to sort the /hot feed is a helpful. The most popular posts rise to the top.

Having those upvotes reflected on your profile encourages the more obnoxious posts. That part is what I mean by karma.

Reddit's feed is handled by a simple algorithm. It doesn't use machine learning to guess what you personally would like.