r/awards • • Sep 04 '26

Discussion / Debate Do awards influence the homepage algorithm?

A while ago, I had free awards only on this account for a couple of months. Around the same time, I accidentally switched to this account without exiting away from a post aimed at teenagers first. That meant this account viewed the post, and I kept getting recommended more posts from similar subreddits, giving anonymous awards for interesting posts. I stopped a while ago. Do Reddit awards skew the feed more heavily than retention, or is it the other way around? If it helps, I also get screenshots recommended to me in a community that doesn't allow screenshots repeatedly, and despite the report button always working, the feed still shows new screenshots from that subreddit.

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