https://nathankyoung.substack.com/p/the-death-of-the-downvote
Downvotes is what makes Reddit, Reddit. The entire karma system depends on it. It’s one of the biggest sites with the most uniform thought. Get too many downdoots and you can’t post in certain places. Extending it further to auto-banning you from certain subreddits if you’re subbed to the wrong subreddits, as well as not allowing to post with an account that’s too new. Everything is curated to keep you and what you see the right think. Engagement farming or ragebaiting is better in comparison because at least dissent thoughts can be made at all.
With concerns to the algorithm, there is usually a “not interested” button or block button that reduces that type of content. Instagram and Tiktok especially let you filter whatever you want by filtering keywords you write in yourself in the settings.
It looks like you can still sort by controversial, but they don’t show you it as an option in the menu for sort by. You have to add it to the URL yourself… which isn’t something the typical phoneposter would do, right?
They also removed the ability to use /r/random to jump to a random subreddit. It was fun when you could copy and paste-paste-paste a single url repeatedly to scrub through a variety of subs while looking at their most controversial posts of all time.
Democracy in action.
When the masses act without the governance of some higher morality, they will invariably end up reinforcing each others delusional and retarded thinking, because they are quite literally Low IQ, and incapable of higher thought as a consequence.
The ruling class of course creates democracy and funds think tanks like Reddit, because they know that where mediocrity can flourish, nothing can emerge Exceptional from their rule.