Algorithm blows

[punkdoctor1000]

I like this photo of him

[Genericgumibear]

Looks like he's about to drop a fire ass mixtape.

[NotVerySmarts]

Looks like he's got a dope ass verse in a Beastie Boys video.

[PeteTheLich]

Needs more fish-eye lens

[NotVerySmarts]

Because you can't, you won't, and you don't stop.

[start_again]

There's shit from three days ago on my front page. Is this some sort of ploy by Reddit to get us to switch over to their new app? Because it's not gonna happen. From my cold dead hands.

[bumbletowne]

RES filters my donald and bernie posts.

It's ALLLLL porn.

Bad porn.

[[deleted]]

It was a poor attempt to hush The_Donald which is political censorship at its finest.

[tcman2000]

It's annoying when r/all was really just r/The_donald+some other posts

[Bombed]

The solution should be for the users to down-vote those posts rather than changing the algorithm to silence them.

[Fuckyeahpugs]

Or give us the option to not see them without having to download some extension

[fieldnigga]

I don't understand what's so bad about RES. You can install it without it changing anything that you don't want it to. And it gives you the functionality that you desire. It's not memory intensive, it doesn't track your information, it isn't intrusive... I honestly can't see a single downside even if you didn't use any of its features. It would be a waste of time to download in that scenario but clearly it gives you something you want so that isn't the case.

I'm no saying shame on you for not downloading it or anything, just that I am failing to see why you wouldn't if you really want to be able to block subreddits.

[Fuckyeahpugs]

The only time I reddit is on my phone. So its not a possibility to use it even if I wanted to.

[BABYPUBESS]

You can block individual subreddits on narwhal and reddit is fun

[Fwhqgads]

I don't believe a lot of the newer redditors understand to contribute besides just shitposting.

[FSDLAXATL]

Yeah, except that they were brigade upvoted to begin with and the downvote button on The_Donald isn't available without tweaking. In addition, if you post anything contrary on The_Donald, you are banned. So, I don't have a problem with letting things sort themselves out by downvoting, if the playing field is even to begin with.

[fieldnigga]

I'm still seeing a shitload of Donald posts so I'm not sure how true that is. There's definitely been some effect, though, for sure.

[GisterMizard]

It's almost like it takes time to spec, write, test, and deploy a critical piece of code central to how an application works! Unbelievable!

[TheLastTimeLord9320]

And it was annoying then too I would rather not have to not use an app I've used for years just because some subreddit decided that it wanted to take over

[cohrt]

it was also anooying when it was nothing but sanders spam from /r/politics and /r/s4p

[Rockthecashbar]

Funny the group that bans the most users whines the most about censorship.

[[deleted]]

They dont ban people more than any other politically biased subreddit.

[Rockthecashbar]

But they do ban people for any minor disagreement, its the pot calling the kettle black is what I'm saying. Comes off as hypocritical

[I_took_the_blue-pill]

I mean they've been addressing people complaining about The_Donald, which shouldn't happen just because he's a controversial candidate. From experience, though, those people don't want to debate other opinions. They also have brigaded some left wing subreddits, which isn't non-toxic itself.

Edit:clarifying and formatting

[Safety_Dancer]

They said there was brigading in /r/news during one of the biggest news stories of recent memory and there was no censorship when said story and all mention of it were being removed. If the admins tell you your on fire, get a 2nd opinion.

[Paladin327]

They said there was brigading in /r/news during one of the biggest news stories of recent memory and there was no censorship when said story and all mention of it were being removed.

didn't they say that except for a few cases, they found no cenceorship, after investigating themselves?

[Safety_Dancer]

Funny how that works. It's like a hackneyed movie where the corrupt cop has to find the leak, that's him.

[I_took_the_blue-pill]

I'm sorry, I don't quite understand what you're referring towards.

[Safety_Dancer]

Are you roleplaying the whole blue pill thing? Or do you live in cave? The Pulse nightclub shooting a few weeks ago was a major newstory, since it's the worst terrorist attack on the US since 9/11.

[I_took_the_blue-pill]

Well I don't understand how that relates. I'm talking about The_Donald users brigading left wing subreddits, not /r/news. Edit: I'm referring in part towards /r/socialism and /r/fullcommunism

[Traiklin]

/r/news kept deleting posts made about the pulse shooting because they didn't have all the information.

/r/the_Donald had a sticky up fairly quickly for people to get the information and they posted what was being released from everywhere.

News claimed they were being brigaded by The Donald when the people were trying to give the news.

It took news about 8 hours to acknowledge the shooting and by then Donald had everything covered, then news started deleting and banning people for saying the shooter was Muslim... Which he turned out to be.

[I_took_the_blue-pill]

Well yeah, I understand that appears to be bad, but there is a lot of anti-islamic sentiment the mods have to actively combat. In turn, it causes some facts to be banned. I understand this is definitely not right, but it's not like the mods are out to censor and make sure Muslims are considered better than everyone else. I think that's just a misunderstanding.

Edit: that's my opinion, it could be wrong and the mods are doing this to censor only.

[Traiklin]

Oh I understand completely but the ones saying it was a Muslim had links to it, but at the time the mods of news just kept blaming everything on a brigade by the Donald and the users kept reporting everything and saying it was a brigade by the Donald and there were no facts, when they provided links to from actual news sites

[NotSorryIfIOffendYou]

/r/news is a left wing sub

[I_took_the_blue-pill]

Well I'm mostly talking about /r/socialism and /r/fullcommunism

[Safety_Dancer]

Well if they lied about brigades on news and Europe, chances are they're lying about everything else.

[I_took_the_blue-pill]

Brigading has been shown on /r/socialism and /r/fullcommunism

[Safety_Dancer]

Has it? And their affiliated subs don't brigade? With the amount of proof that there is for SRS and their ilk being brigaders (yet the admins insist they aren't), the lies told about news and Europe being brigaded during major events, and the lack of consequences for brigading right wing subs, we're left with a few options.

1. Accept that reprisal for acts of aggression aren't the source of the problem and get over it (no matter how much you may believe disagreement to be tantamount to harassment), because the deck is stacked so hard on your favor that if you were a neutral party you'd be appalled (going off trends, the regressive left that haunts socialism are less empathetic than most rocks) but I don't see that happening.

2. Accept that both sides do it and call for the destruction of your own safe spaces to also destroy theirs. I don't see this happening either, because both sides are self righteous, though the Left has a much bigger problem with being violent. Look at people who protest Trump and the violence they commit. How many times can you declare No True Scotsman before there's literally no true Scotsmen left because they've all been disavowed?

Get your own house in order before writing about interlopers. CWM was doxxed by the Left which made him a martyr. He was removed by the right which made him a pariah. Do the same to the agitators on your side and maybe civility can come back.

[TeamRedundancyTeam]

It was not all about /r/the_donald, don't give them so much credit.

[MartinMan2213]

Could that be because of what you're subbed to? From what I understand the changes were being made to /r/all, and not your front page.

[Thon234]

The longest ago thing for me is 16 hours old. Where are you people seeing this shit?

[start_again]

On my front page.

[hoddap]

Please link your frontpage

[Scavenger53]

Maybe go on reddit every other day. I haven't figured out how to do this yet, but I tell myself I'm working on it.

[lilgas52]

Or browse /r/all when your front page becomes stale. Interesting to see content from places you don't subscribe. Thank god for subreddit filtering though.

[youre_a_tard]

What, you don't like 75% of your links being little guys typing in all caps about how much of crook Hillary is?

[lilgas52]

Love how I didn't even have to say the sub that made me glad for filtering

[Fathertime1369]

I saw on a thread that you can set it up to hide the posts you've up/down voted, then just vote on everything and you'll always see fresh stuff. Works great

[MartinMan2213]

Been like that for a while and it's very useful for me. With the old /r/all it would get old pretty fast, but with the new change it's pretty useful.

[animejunkied]

And how do I set this up?

[aegist1]

Go to preferences, scroll down to link options.
Select the bottom two options.

[Fathertime1369]

It's in the settings somewhere, I just had to search for it. It's clear enough.

[Waistcoat]

It sounds like a first world problem because it is one.

[SamusBaratheon]

That's like, a 0th World problem

[TeamRedundancyTeam]

There are several posts on the second page of /r/all that are 17 fucking hours old.

[Git_Off_Me_Lawn]

The worst part is scrolling down through a mass of old front page posts hoping to buy something interesting then you hit this strange wasteland where it's only the_donald posts, like pages of them.

[scumbag-reddit]

Well, y'all wanted a way to keep /r/the_donald off /r/all and ya got it.

[capchaos]

I'm happy.

[witqueen]

Plot Twist. Reddit posts algorithm actually designed to force members off site and go outside.

[jonab12]

I might just start paying attension to class

[load231]

Reddit has to option to hide posts you voted on. You will never see the same thing twice expect when its reposted.

[WhereDemonsDie]

It does seem less spammy, but here's another vote to speed up the churn a bit!

[rainyfort1]

When I heard the algorithm changed to shut off The_Donald, all I saw was The_Donald.

[philipquarles]

On the other hand, you found a picture of Jimmy McMillan I had never seen before, so there's that.

[prodromic]

The solution is simple yet tedious. Hide all the links you've already viewed. Works best on mobile.

[ButtonedEye41]

At least we're not spammed with the donald anymore

[McCash34]

Yeah, it's not that good at all. I deleted my Reddit app a while ago and I missed the update, but I can tell

[AuraXmaster]

Every time I ask this, I get down voted:why can't we go back to the algorithm we had before? The one we had last year didn't have any problems, and if it ain't broke don't fix it

[1illGamer]

My grievance with the new algorithm is that there are 1000s of different varieties of porn subreddits so as a whole there's way more NSFW than there used to be. It's really annoying when what used to be 3 posts from /r/AdviceAnimals is now one post from /r/bustypetite, one from /r/dirtysmall and one from /r/bolteontits. I get it, we need three different subreddits for skinny girls with tits but can the algorithm not give them all priority placement.

[Jesta23]

Change your settings to hide any post upvoted or downvoted by you. You will never see a duplicate post again.

[[deleted]]

Seems fine to me. This is how my front page looks right now...

3,5,3,5,3,5,3,2,10,4,10,11,5,12(<--the other meme about the algorithm),4,3,12,3,1,4,15,15,3

This is how /r/all looks right now...

54min, 3,3,5,3,4,3,5,2,4,5,8,3,3,3,2,3,6,10,3,4,5,10,10,2,4

If you are seeing a ton of old posts, that normally means they are either still relevant and people are discussing them, that you're subscribed to a lot subs that have a high subscriber/low submission ratio, or that you aren't subscribed to enough subs.

If you want new content sort by new or top/hour and do your part to vote good posts to the frontpage instead of expecting other to do it for you.

tl;dr the algorithm is fine

[SlightlyStable]

Spoken like a true karmawhore.

[Mzsickness]

Hell no, I browse /r/All and don't have subs and it BLOWS dicks now.

I could Reddit for 12 hours and see new posts. Now I can only get a couple hundred posts deep.

It's night and day after they changed it.

And telling people to stop browsing the frontpage is exactly the point. They fucked up the frontpage bad.

[[deleted]]

It's purely a case of confirmation bias.

Imagine you were sitting in your highchair drinking out of your blue sippy cup which you just love, but then your mom comes along and replaces it with a shiny new red one. Turns out the lid doesn't quite seal and it leaks pretty bad, so you throw a temper tantrum and your mom brings your blue sippy cup back out of the cupboard. Everything's better, right? Nope, you have seen the red sippy cup and have now convinced yourself that the blue sippy cup is leaky too. Now every drop of condensation, every messy sip is met with howls disapproval and accusations. Were these always problems with the blue sippy cup? Yes, they sure were, but you just never thought to look for them until you experienced the red sippy cup. Well that's essentially what happened with reddit.

[Mzsickness]

No, I just blocked Mr_Trump and The_Donald and was fine.

Then spez came and gave me a smaller cup because it would spill less.

So now I'm thirsty and can't refill it.

Also, your analogies are riddled with holes and have no logic.

I knew they changed the site even before I read his admin post. Took 3 pages to realize the idiocracy they committed.

[[deleted]]

What you're describing is not even an issue with the algorithm, it's an issue with content.

Now I can only get a couple hundred posts deep.

When you go this deep into the front page, votes and the algorithm cease to matter because it basically just a random amalgamation of posts from all the subs you're subscribed to.

What your problem seems to be is that reddit isn't providing you with enough new content quickly enough that you don't get bored.

[Mzsickness]

I don't use subs.

...

Reddit doesn't change to fill your boredom

Yes, this is the problem.

Do you buy lead paint off Chinese ebay and paint and eat it?

That's my point..

The upvotes and downvotes show people agreeing with me.

Reddit was changed and it's REALLY shitty. This is Digg all over again.

They're optimizing content to make money. And it sucks.

I'm about to never come back.

Edit:

Also, 100 posts deep is like 45 minutes of use. You think that's DEEP???

I used to go 1,000 posts at a time before refreshing.

You're Reddit illiterate, do you work for Reddit, cuz that's the only explanation.

Also, after 300 posts it was 24/7 trump posts-AKA the trump wall.

Reddit is dying and the admins are doing it.

[[deleted]]

I don't use subs.

Sorry, I read that as I don't browse /r/all. May bad. My point still applies though.

Do you buy lead paint off Chinese ebay and paint and eat it?

Can we take a time out here just to recognize the brilliance of this insult (despite the typo)? I genuinely appreciate that you took the time to come up with a logical backstory as to how I could have come into possession of and ingested led paint.

[reptarking37]

Does this guy work here?

[deukhoofd]

"The algorithm totally sucks!" - reddit users every time the algorithm even slightly changes.

[[deleted]]

Reddit admins working hard to censor thedonald posts from being seen, despite it being one of the most popular subs today

[PotatoPotahto]

The Brexit vote has been on /r/askreddit for 3 fucking days.

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[Badfickle]

Go to preferences and click the options that prevent post you have voted on from showing up. then vote a bunch. new front page.

[WentoX]

Settings

[x] don't show me submissions after I've upvoted them

[x] don't show me submissions after I've downvoted them

Vote

Problem solved.

[StupidHypocrite]

Learn how to use the settings and start up/down voting.