I left Reddit because both my upvotes and my downvotes were not counted. It took me months to figure that out and luckily I did. I did not care much about the voting system in the beginning but I was lacking a feature that people had and that feature was the upvote notification that lets the person I am interacting with know that I appreciate his/her/their presence even if we disagree.
I have wondered about those hidden bans so to speak. It’s been said that voting directly from a users profile has no effect. What other hidden trap doors is the platform littered with.
I’ve suspected your votes can be rate limited. What others shenanigans do they pull. I fully expect Facebook level human experimentation. e.g. Psychologically inciting users to see what happens.
I took to the same practice mentioned in another post of using alternate connection routes to reddit if I really need to interact. Raw-dogging that site on your main connection is a bad idea.
yes, they do those experiments and they also let other companies do that. I think this is one of the reasons why they are charging more for their API.
