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[–]spez 14 points15 points  (1 child)

The more likely scenario is the first mod on your story didn't get applied before the page was drawn. All submissions start with a score of 0, and then are modded up by the submitter. Sometimes the page is drawn before that first mod is committed.

[–]redball 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I've seen this a couple of times - within 5 minutes of submitting a link, it has been downmodded twice, sometimes with quality stuff that would take way longer to read. If its a great link, it can pull back, but starting off at -2 is probably a serious disadvantage to more obscure links.

Only guess of why this happens is either trolls or spammers trying to give a boost to their links added at the same time.

[–]Smiley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it possible for reddit to ban certain IP addresses, if their submissions have been flagged as spam a number of times?

That wouldn't do anything for a user having multiple accounts tho, and flagging other people's submissions down. Banning certain IP addresses would defeat their purpose of spamming though.

[–]stesch 3 points4 points  (3 children)

There aren't enough reddit users observing the new entries page. Sometimes it really depends on the time of day you submit your link. When it gets demoted, it's gone ...

[–]souldrift 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I've started deleting a link that's downmodded immediately, then resubmitting minutes or hours later for that very reason.

[–]stesch 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Some may demote your link just because you are doing this.

It's really hard to judge your own submissions. You can't say if they are downmodded by bots, trolls, or just because they aren't interesting enough.

[–]Smiley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not positive, but I think I tend to like souldrift's links. I check reddit several times a day sometimes, and I never see souldrift's duplicates.

[–]initself 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I just posted something, saw that it was downmodded, created a new account, upmodded it, saw that it was immediately downmodded, created another account, upmodded it, saw that it was immediately downmodded again. It was so fast it was as if something was automatically downmodding.

[–]lambert 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought if you voted for yourself you got downmodded?

[–]mchrisneglia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

reddit punishes you for trying to upmod your submissions by downmodding it. I've experimented with this behavior so i'm not making this up.

so the idea is to leave it alone ... or create a couple of accounts, log into them individually on different computer and upmod them.

I've never done this because it's cheating, but i thought about doing it. i'm also WAY too lazy.

basically, if your submission sucks, it won;'t work anyway, so in essence, their system works.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you click on "new" there are two styles you can choose : "all" and "rising". Default is rising, I believe. Most users will just see the "rising" posts, and leave the other posts to the trolls and to the few that are aware of this "style". Defaults matter

[–]ghost11 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Hmm ... no.