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View submission: Out with 2016, in with 2017
Stickying a thread is abuse? Lol... It's the most active sub on Reddit. It's going to be on the front page because it has the most users in it at a time. Things with more votes should be at the top, not tweaked with an algorithm because the admins and CEO's political ideologies. More votes, more visibility. It's really that simple, no abuse or algorithms needed.
Comment by inquisiturient at 26/01/2017 at 14:03 UTC
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Stickying a thread specifically to get it upvoted first is, though.
I don't believe it was in response to reddit admin ideologies, though. Even if they do skew liberal, it was more about one subreddit dominating the front of /r/all, which is a problem from a diversity standpoint. It's not interesting to see 10 t_d posts, but it is to see some from many subs. That was the major issue. They also ignored requests from the admins.
Reddit isn't more votes = more visibility, there is a lot more to that algorithm and has been since before t_d was around.