I suspect it is to attract advertisers. They changed the voting algorithm, so now it looks like they're getting more traffic, and it also pushes old posts way down so that stuff that wasn't intensely moderated years ago still goes unseen without being removed.
I suspect it is to attract advertisers. They changed the voting algorithm, so now it looks like they're getting more traffic, and it also pushes old posts way down so that stuff that wasn't intensely moderated years ago still goes unseen without being removed.
Jesus. I remember when I used Reddit the top posts were still a thousand or two upvoats.