<story><title>Reddit overhauls upvote algorithm to thwart cheaters</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/06/reddit-overhauls-upvote-algorithm-to-thwart-cheaters-and-show-the-sites-true-scale/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rm999</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s pretty clear to me that Reddit has always lacked a solid experienced science-driven data person. Someone who can pinpoint an issue, formulate the issue into a product-driven concrete problem, come up with hypotheses on how to fix the problem, then use their vast wealth of data and users to test and&amp;#x2F;or implement them.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not just the ad hoc unintuitive &amp;quot;solution&amp;quot; they came up with to mask votes (which most people agreed was a user-antagonist step in the wrong direction). It&amp;#x27;s a lot of things: their inept response to spam&amp;#x2F;vote brigading&amp;#x2F;other abuse; their lack of personalized content discovery (state of the art from 10-15 years ago would probably suffice). I could go on, as a product-driven data scientist who has been on reddit since the early days, I&amp;#x27;m constantly struck by how little they do with the amazing data they have.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clamprecht</author><text>Redditor of 11 years here.  I don&amp;#x27;t want another filter bubble that only shows me what it thinks I want to read (like Facebook).  I want to see what other people are seeing, and not just like-minded people either.  For that I can find subreddits and subscribe to them.</text></comment>
<story><title>Reddit overhauls upvote algorithm to thwart cheaters</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/06/reddit-overhauls-upvote-algorithm-to-thwart-cheaters-and-show-the-sites-true-scale/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rm999</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s pretty clear to me that Reddit has always lacked a solid experienced science-driven data person. Someone who can pinpoint an issue, formulate the issue into a product-driven concrete problem, come up with hypotheses on how to fix the problem, then use their vast wealth of data and users to test and&amp;#x2F;or implement them.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not just the ad hoc unintuitive &amp;quot;solution&amp;quot; they came up with to mask votes (which most people agreed was a user-antagonist step in the wrong direction). It&amp;#x27;s a lot of things: their inept response to spam&amp;#x2F;vote brigading&amp;#x2F;other abuse; their lack of personalized content discovery (state of the art from 10-15 years ago would probably suffice). I could go on, as a product-driven data scientist who has been on reddit since the early days, I&amp;#x27;m constantly struck by how little they do with the amazing data they have.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>minimaxir</author><text>&amp;gt; “At one point I just ask him, ‘how’s the data science team at Reddit?’ And [Ohanian] said, ‘what data science team?’” Weiner recounts to me.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;25&amp;#x2F;reddit-cto-marty-weiner-on-building-a-home-for-the-internets-wildest-community&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;25&amp;#x2F;reddit-cto-marty-weiner-on...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>