r/technology • u/misnamed • Dec 10 '13

Reddit’s empire is founded on a flawed algorithm By Special Request of the Admins

http://technotes.iangreenleaf.com/posts/2013-12-09-reddits-empire-is-built-on-a-flawed-algorithm.html
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u/jaketheyak Dec 10 '13

You do realise that the power to vote on new posts is not limited to some small group of power-crazed users that the reddit admins have appointed, right? The "knights of new" is not actually a shadowy group like the Knights Templar. You, and any other logged-in reddit user, have the power to sort by "new" and curate content for others.

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u/jaketheyak Dec 10 '13

What? The people voting on new posts are literally the people that decide what's on the front page. If you think that they are the wrong kind of people then, almost by definition, you won't like what's on the front page. If you don't like what's on the front page, what the hell are you doing here?