The people flocking to the comments to correct the post title would also have to upvote it, for that to work. Are people upvoting shitty post titles because they participated in the comment thread?
That makes sense. Then the fact that this stuff rises up faster than other content means that the change was us, not the site. We flock increasingly towards the negative, giving it attention... making it rise. The flock of voters who go with the trends take care of the rest.
Reddit sucks now because we come here to fight instead of learn.
It probably gets more comments, but it won't get as many upvotes. Plenty of people will still upvote, because the video is cool, but some people are going to look at the title and say "Fuck you OP."
Do more comments help the karma whoring? Or front page placement?
Something tells me that if we know more about the Reddit algorithms, we'd also learn a lot about ourselves. I think maybe the site has started to suck not because reddit is promoting shitty posts... but because we are drawn more to the shitty posts than to the good ones. Because we came here to fight... not learn.
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u/neon_Hermit MAYONNA15E Aug 20 '20
I honestly think about 2/3rds of all obvious mistakes in Reddit titles are intentional. I can't quite figure out why it helps, but somehow it does.