just so this doesn’t overwhelm our front page too much, i think now’s a good time to start consolidating discussions. existing threads will be kept up, but unless a big update comes let’s try to keep what’s happening in this thread instead of across 10.

developments to this point:

The Verge is on it as usual, also–here’s their latest coverage (h/t @dirtmayor@beehaw.org):

other media coverage:

  • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    I love how the AMA has 0 points. You down vote it and it comes back to 0. No manipulation there reddit. Just that alone shows what a disgrace that company is.

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      2 years ago

      It doesn’t even show up on spez’s profile lmfao. Last post says 1 year ago. Definitely no manipulation there.

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      2 years ago

      That’s been a thing for a long time. Threads can not go into negatives. You can only see the upvote percentage.

      You aren’t the first person I’ve seen confused about that, which I think indicates a big problem with reddit’s modern design. Back in the old days on every thread and comment you could see both how many up and down votes it got, not just the total number. It was cleaner and more transparent. Over time, reddit has increasingly obfuscated how all the magic numbers work.

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      Before they changed what numbers they showed, there were karma farmers that specifically posted dumb stuff to rack up the most negative karma score they could. Over time Reddit has done a fair bit of tweaking of what numbers are shown and setting caps or floors in some places.

      This isn’t special behavior, all posts have a floor of 0. Only comments can have negative scores.

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      I don’t think posts on reddit ever actually show less than 0 points no matter how many downvotes they get. Comments do, but posts always bottom out at 0 as far as I know.