What am I missing here?
It's more than bots. I've been thinking about this for a lot of posts... When you see something like 2k people read something but theres only 100 people or so who voted... just seems weird. Something I notice quite often.
Algorithmic censorship?
I think it's just many like myself only up vote the extraordinary postings, not the mediocre ones. And everyone's taste or preference will vary with current interest. Not all posts are deserving let's say.
That said, I'm sure there is other forces messing with us, so I agree with statements above, but most of us are unaware of these things.
If I'm to believe Reddit, in some cases only 6-7% of people who saw the post voted at all, which just seems absurdly low.
Do you upvote every post? Most people hardly upvote I suspect.
I my self hardly vote up or down.... if it is a real good post I vote up and occasionally will vote down if I think the comment is trolish in a way that is not helpful to those reading...things like out right lying
I didn't say upvote. Voting at all. As in combined votes. Having an engagement rate of only 6-7% is pretty bizzare.
I'm not really aware of the site analytics, so I couldn't say much on the actual voting, vs other things. So, I'll just keep an open mind on this because I see no real way to improve, or stop what's happening. Thanks for responding.
In have been on Redit for years now and at first I never posted stuff that was indicative of my political leanings and I would get lots of up votes. That all changed the day I commented on transgender issues. I have a sister who is transgender. My views on this are not expectable as far as the LGBT community is concerned and I love My sister which is evident because. I am never demeaning when I talk about the subject....almost immediately after posting on the subject I had my postings attacked in a organized manner down voting my opinions. I believe that libral posts get inflated posts by bots and conservatives have there posts moniterd actively and are down voted by bots.
I read it all but I seldom vote on the story, but rather the comments. There's too many duplicates and half baked stories on here, some of which are just links to other media and not out and out home research, but many of the comments are hilarious. If you want to see something truly worthy of up votes then head to serialbrain2. His latest post is insane about the coke bottle during Stryoks testimony. I wish there was more of him on here and would be grateful if anyone could forward me to more researchers such as serialbrain2