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kleinbl00  ·  3848 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Downvotes *are* bad for the community.

The problem Reddit runs into that Slashdot or Hubski don't is the absurd quantity of votes. Slashdot stops you at what? 5? Hubski stops at 8 or whatever. My top voted comment on Reddit has 6900 upvotes. That's three orders of magnitude higher than either other aggregator (say that three times fast). The mistake, i think, is in presuming that three additional orders of magnitude gives you any advantage whatsoever in sorting.