<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></parent_chain><comment><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></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></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>Since I can&amp;#x27;t really say more than this:  there&amp;#x27;s a lot of misinformation and misunderstanding in these comments. Don&amp;#x27;t believe everything you read on the internet and don&amp;#x27;t believe the conspiracy theories that this has anything to do with censorship or surpressing political (or any other) discourse.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s really just making the math less complicated.</text></comment>