I wish we could see up/downvotes like in the past. I think reddit may be artificially boosting some posts into the front page. You can see in the screenshot it has very little upvotes (or older) compared to the other top 4 posts.

I have no evidence other than noticing right after the election, /r/conservative seems to be hitting the front page every day. But I remember before the election, it only hit the front page once in a blue moon or so. Is this just me? Am I the only one noticing this?

  • vga@sopuli.xyz
    14·
    27 minutes ago

    You’re better than this conspiracy crap.

    They populate the front page based on views, not votes. People (like you for instance, and possibly now several people reading this thread) are increasingly visiting r/conservative right now.

    edit I guess it’s more correct to say that they populate the front page by various inputs, not just votes. It might be views, comments (like depedencyinjection there suggests), plus all kinds of other inputs to the algo like your own account behavior or your location and behavior of other accounts nearby and who knows.

    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
      3·
      42 minutes ago

      And numbers of comments I guess. Look at how many comments it has. Plus the Jurassic Park one above has less upvotes and less comments and is on the front page.