• Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Uh, no. Lol

    It maybe showed popularity. But it was frequently manipulated.

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      1 year ago

      Example: replace this entire comment with a portion of a highly upvoted comment below from this same thread, combine that with an official experience that only shows one or two top level comments and those copies can also get lots of upvotes. Reddit was rife with these kinds of bots.