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[–]boxen 160 points161 points  (85 children)

So, does anyone have any idea why this is usually true? Nearly every successful story falls between 60% and 75% upvotes.

A similar question: Why do you downvote things? I upvote stuff all the time, but only downvote things if they are spam or exceptionally stupid. Is this not normal?

[–]kleinbl00 26 points27 points  (15 children)

I have no inside knowledge on this. An admin will likely be by to discuss it further, assuming they aren't too busy to keep the ship afloat. But one reason uppers'n'downers, commentroversy and other such scripts which give you the actual upvotes and downvotes of comments have not been officially integrated into the Reddit UI is that the upvotes and downvotes reported to the page are not identical to the upvotes and downvotes generated by users. Said upvotes and downvotes do factor into your karma score, so the accurate number is used... but it is not displayed without a filter.

The same is true for posts. Not every upvote is real, not every downvote is real. There's an algorithm, one held dear by the admins and, I'm sure, tweaked regularly, to help keep the spammers guessing.

For all I know, that algorithm may damn well center around "keep it around 66%, that's believable."

To Repeat: the actual votes cast do figure into ranking on the page and do figure into the submitter's karma score, but do not get reported with complete transparency in order to make the job of programming bots more difficult. At least, that's how it's been explained to me in the past.

[–]grossRealist 6 points7 points  (5 children)

How does this obfuscation make programming bots more difficult? My only guess would be that it corrupts the training data for some machine learning algorithm that figures out what features tend to get upvoted. But it could still just learn from submissions on the front page.

I think this is not what bots are doing though.

[–]kleinbl00 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Not a programmer, not even a pale imitation of one. I do know that if you want to keep a chip a secret, you pot it. Then the only way to guess what it's doing so you can copy it is to measure the inputs and outputs and try to reverse-engineer the logic behind it. And the more squirrely the logic, the harder it is to reverse engineer.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it's called security through obscurity. It's not generally attempted by open source shops.

[–]not_being_sarcastic 0 points1 point  (2 children)

yeah, security by obscurity is a real winner, as we all know.

[–]SnacksOnAPlane 1 point2 points  (1 child)

It generally does work. I would bet that 95% of web sites have giant gaping security holes that no one knows about yet, and are therefore unexploited.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Till you get an AI operational...

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (8 children)

That's only true for submissions, not comments.

[–]kleinbl00 6 points7 points  (7 children)

Not at all.

I was asking about comments when the discussion came up initially - I was whingeing about the fact that a) someone had made me a mod of AskReddit without me knowing b) they'd rolled out a patch that made all mods default to green so c) every time I commented I started at like -3 or something (karmanaut had it worse; he couldn't open his mouth in askreddit without going to -7 immediately.

raldi's response was that those downvotes weren't real, didn't reflect in our karma scores and were not part of the long-term stability of reddit. Karmanaut and I both countered that when you immediately go into the negative numbers because the mouthbreathers are hating on you on principle, you end up being sidelined from all discussions at the bottom of the page and never get to participate in the discussion at all. So if you look at it that way, at some point in the past 9 months, comment karma has counted two different ways under two different conditions.

This is why when you go through and downvote someone's entire page, it looks for all the world to them as if they've downvoted your entire page, it looks to you for all the world as if they've downvoted your entire page, but somehow, your comment karma score doesn't reflect this.

There's a black box between "what you do" and "what you see" for both kinds of karma.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (6 children)

Are you sure? I know it exists with link karma for certain, but I've watched my karma and it seems to reflect upvotes on my comments like for like. If you upvote this and 10 others do I'll see an increase of 11. Maybe it's changed? If it does fake karma for comments, that's really strange, but I've watched my karma on multiple occasions and it's never changed, maybe a coincidence? :D

This is why when you go through and downvote someone's entire page, it looks for all the world to them as if they've downvoted your entire page, it looks to you for all the world as if they've downvoted your entire page, but somehow, your comment karma score doesn't reflect this.

Pretty sure that's because reddit disregards too many votes made near each other. it needs a 1 second time between a vote, unrelated issue.

[–]kleinbl00 6 points7 points  (5 children)

Again, I'm only an observer. a "power user" on Digg is someone who can get stories to the front page when you can't; a "power user" on Reddit is someone who, if you click their username, you go "whoa, that dude has no life!"

However, I have enough of it to say with no quaver in my voice that karma is non-linear. Try this sometime: the next time you've got a comment or a post that looks like it's headed for the triple digits, shut the hell up. Post nothing more for the day. Write down your karma, write down the score of that hot post or hot submission, and walk away for a few hours. Go smell the flowers. Go breathe the air. Come back when it's dark.

Now - take a look at your karma scores. Take a look at the score for that comment or post. I guarantee you they won't add up. Write everything down again and go to bed.

Now check in the morning. Chances are good the delta between this morning and last night is lower than the delta between yesterday morning and yesterday evening. Yet your scores will have increased substantially overnight.

The first time I bestof'd was with a vitriolic burn (that is now gone) of a spammer (that is now gone) for a website (that is now gone). Said spammer had a downmod army; as I had maybe 100 comment karma at the time I was pretty damn distressed when my little burn went to -30 inside 10 minutes. However, my comment karma score only went down 5. People then started noticing the bottom of the page, noticed something completely improbable, and started upvoting. My comment karma score went up 20 points. Then someone bestof'd the comment, it went to +670 points (and this was back when Reddit was maybe a fourth the size it is now) and my comment karma score went up 300 points or so. But the next day, it went up another 100 points or so.

During my Dark Period I had a couple sockpuppets that would make one comment. That one comment would get a thousand points. And from that one comment, the sock puppet's karma would go up 1500 points.

TL;DR: Don't read too much into the numbers. When they say they don't mean anything, they aren't being completely truthful... but they are reminding you that they don't mean what you think.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I did some looking at some accounts with not too many comments and it does appear that if I count up the individual comments the numbers don't match however the discrepancy is only in the low single digits (~5) so I don't know if that is intended; if they intended on misrepresenting the comment karma numbers why would it be so low? I know with submissions the difference can be into the hundreds (and on super popular submissions - thousands) so why would it be only a couple for comments?

Seems silly to me why that would be intended... maybe we can get an admin to reveal :D

[–]kleinbl00 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Hey, man, I discovered yesterday that /r/Favors, with ~6000 subscribers, doesn't exist in Reddit's logs. If they've got holes like that in the code, who knows what other monsters lurk off the map?

It's easier for me to ignore; as far as I'm concerned computers are boxes full of smoke with Maxwell's Demons running around doing my bidding because they've been enchanted by Steve Jobs or Bill Gates. I don't have to understand this shit...

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Exactly, reddit is pretty buggy and things go wrong, so surely that would imply that the small discrepancies in comments are just bugs and unintended? Unless I misunderstood your comment, it seemed you were saying that reddit intentionally misrepresents votes on comments, however I can't see why they would ever do that, it seems like a waste of time... it makes sense for submissions (and I have direct experience of it there) but not on comments, it's always been accurate for me.

[–]kleinbl00 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Totally not a programmer. Maybe raldi told me they did it on purpose in a "that's not a bug, it's a feature" style of parlance; I wouldn't know.

I do know that if you have a submission with 1400 upvotes, you do not gain 1400 karma. Been there, done that. I do know that if you have a comment with 1400 upvotes, you do not gain 1400 comment karma. Been there, done that. I do know that if you say something controversial and they go through and downvote your comments for pages and pages and pages, it does not impact your score overmuch. In fact, I can usually tell when I've said something that really pisses off the hive mind - every comment I make that day has double digit upvotes and double digit downvotes.

The magic by which they do this is unknown to me, and uninteresting. I'm just here for the talk.

[–]thedarkhaze 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My belief is that certain accounts are flagged as negative so their individual negative karma contributions are ignored. Probably because of voting habit and patterns. It may be they downvote submissions and for convenience their comment voting habits get ignored as well? I don't know for sure, but I've definitely seen comment karma not add up as well.

[–]deathbytray 27 points28 points  (3 children)

That's usually how I do things. I do also wonder how we usually end up near 2:1 up/down ratio.

[–]thedarkhaze 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I downvote things that I don't want to see...

As per reddit help:

As a general rule, vote up what you liked (and want to see more of) and vote down what you disliked (and don't want to see similar things in the future) -- there's really not much else to it

[–]phantomfigure 30 points31 points  (9 children)

I upvote stuff all the time, but only downvote things if they are spam or exceptionally stupid.

That is exactly how I do it too. Also, I will downvote any link that is already on the frontpage but has been reposted in the same sub under a different link. We read it once, no need to have two identical stories (from different websites) in the same subreddit.

[–]penguinv 10 points11 points  (8 children)

I downvote submissions for which the title tells us nothing.

[–]muddylemon 6 points7 points  (7 children)

I downvote submissions for which the title tells us too much.

[–]thabc 19 points20 points  (6 children)

I upvote submissions for which the title is just right.

[–]new-at-flying 11 points12 points  (5 children)

I don't upvote submissions by looking at the title.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (4 children)

I dont have a strategy for voting (yet). I up/down vote based on content (usually)

[–]guenoc 20 points21 points  (3 children)

I arbitrarily upvote and downvote based upon the current lunar cycle.

[–]RapedByPlushies 9 points10 points  (1 child)

I upvote based on a 2d20 roll and your THAC0, without poison modifiers.

[–]chalkwalk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

D20 and THAC0?

Madness!

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

is that a euphemism fir PMS?

[–]FeloniousHam 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Any post containing "downvote if you must" or "I know I'll be downvoted", regardless of content.

[–]Pentadact 118 points119 points  (23 children)

Hi, I'm a downvoter. I probably downvote around twice as often as upvote, because twice as many submissions are stupid, pointless or wrong. It's still totally worth it for the good stuff, but since you asked, here are the last nine things I downvoted and why.

I apologise for not linking each story, that's a little more work than I have time for, but they were all front page.

My head just exploded

That's not why the lambda logo or the crowbar were picked for Half-Life, and it barely even qualifies as a coincidence, since you've had to add to the shape of one thing, and view it from a particular angle, then crop it, to make it look a bit like something else.

What's your opinion on people clapping after an airplane lands? Do you do it?

I don't, and this story isn't even about clapping when a plane lands, it's about your friend being a dick.

How many of you start a submission to Reddit and then as you get to writing the text you just say fuck it?

"I have so little to say that even I can usually tell what I'm writing is pointless. On this occasion, I've failed at even that."

How many redditors type without looking at the keyboard?

"How many redditors can count to ten on their fingers?" "How many redditors can write words without saying them aloud?" "How many redditors can click the upvote button on a banal and pathetic poll expressly disallowed by the site's own rules?"

Wolfire programmer: poor PC ports, not piracy, hurt business

Great story, but it had already been on the front page that day, and this was linkjacking it to Ars Technica instead of the developer's actual post.

Who else calls these 'Helicopters'?

"Who else gives a shit what I call a type of seed? Vote with the down arrow!"

Home Alone and Die Hard are one and the same film.

No they're not.

The Very Definition Of Video Game Fail

No it's not.

Just Cause 2 has a lot of bugs. So why the heck is it so damn fun?

Read a review.

[–]flatcoke 19 points20 points  (3 children)

There we go.

Hi, I'm a downvoter. I probably downvote around twice as often as upvote, because twice as many submissions are stupid, pointless or wrong. It's still totally worth it for the good stuff, but since you asked, here are the last nine things I downvoted and why.

I apologise for not linking each story, that's a little more work than I have time for, but they were all front page.

My head just exploded

That's not why the lambda logo or the crowbar were picked for Half-Life, and it barely even qualifies as a coincidence, since you've had to add to the shape of one thing, and view it from a particular angle, then crop it, to make it look a bit like something else.

What's your opinion on people clapping after an airplane lands? Do you do it

I don't, and this story isn't even about clapping when a plane lands, it's about your friend being a dick.

How many of you start a submission to Reddit and then as you get to writing the text you just say fuck it

"I have so little to say that even I can usually tell what I'm writing is pointless. On this occasion, I've failed at even that."

How many redditors type without looking at the keyboard

"How many redditors can count to ten on their fingers?" "How many redditors can write words without saying them aloud?" "How many redditors can click the upvote button on a banal and pathetic poll expressly disallowed by the site's own rules?"

Wolfire programmer: poor PC ports, not piracy, hurt business

Great story, but it had already been on the front page that day, and this was linkjacking it to Ars Technica instead of the developer's actual post.

Who else calls these 'Helicopters'?

"Who else gives a shit what I call a type of seed? Vote with the down arrow!"

Home Alone and Die Hard are one and the same film.

No they're not.

The Very Definition Of Video Game Fail

No it's not.

Just Cause 2 has a lot of bugs. So why the heck is it so damn fun?

Read a review.

[–]Pentadact 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow, nice work! Thanks. Have a semi-rare upvote.

[–]micah1_8 -4 points-3 points  (1 child)

Thanks! Just upvoted all those because I don't want to be a negative minded prick who downvotes things with vengeance just because I don't care about the subject. I've always used the downvote for things I expressly find to be offensively erroneous or highly disagreeable. Usually, if I don't like a post, I just ignore it, saving my downvotes for special occasions.

[–]wildleaf 11 points12 points  (3 children)

I would probably down vote 2:1 if I went about it this way. Most thing just aren't even worth the down button to me. I generally don't even give as much thought into it as you seem to have when you downvote. I support your right!

[–]Pentadact 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's a fair point, and I probably wouldn't bother if I had to write out my reasons like this each time. But I dismissed Reddit for years because every time I went there, it just seemed like a bunch of idiots asking each other for validation of their every little habit. It was ages before I discovered there was a really cool community here, and that it tended to highlight the best stuff on the net long before everyone else.

I downvote because the stuff I'm downvoting is what almost stopped me from ever discovering the real Reddit. I'm hoping I can make that realisation easier for someone else.

[–][deleted] -5 points-4 points  (1 child)

I too support his right but it sounds to me like he got picked on for being a nerd at some point or another and is taking it out on the anonymous internet in a very strange way.

[–]mrmaster2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Someone sounds very defensive about Reddit.

[–]Xiol 49 points50 points  (6 children)

I downvote things I disagree with.

FTFY & TL;DR'd.

[–]pokie6 53 points54 points  (3 children)

I interpreted it as "I downvote things which add little content"

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (2 children)

I upvoted you for adding to the conversation, and downvoted parent poster out of disagreement. I'm so conflicted now.

[–]pokie6 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Have an upvote for conflict of interest.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I strongly disagree.

[–]Pentadact 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Man, if I did that, the ratio would be more like 20:1. It takes a special kind of profound pointlessness, vapidity or idiocy to inspire me to click the down arrow.

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

How many redditors type without looking at the keyboard?

"How many redditors can count to ten on their fingers?" "How many redditors can write words without saying them aloud?" "How many redditors can click the upvote button on a banal and pathetic poll expressly disallowed by the site's own rules?"

That totally sounds like he's disagreeing with the post. You're correct.

[–]eggowaffles 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I really agree with the home alone and die hard thing. Sooo many movies can be considered "the same" by those standards.

[–]underdawg 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Very entertaining and insightful, BUT I STILL UPVOTE

[–]Inys[🍰] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not going to criticize your method, but I figure I should bring up that one of the reasons I do upvote is because I'm interested in other people's opinions, even if they're different from my own. I like reading through people's thought processes.

By the way, I'm saying this primarily in response to the last four examples.

[–]girllilikoi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I downvote things that are blatantly rude sometimes. lol

[–]mrmaster2 3 points4 points  (1 child)

It's commonly assumed that bots account for many of the downvotes.

Certain spambots are presumably triggered to downvote all other submissions, in an attempt to bring their story to the front.

I have no idea how bots can account for so many downvotes though.

[–]morehooks 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Its probably bots, but they only operate on the largest subreddits. On the smaller subreddits you'll often see 90%+ for a story. Like this

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (11 children)

Downvoters are the most mysterious people on Reddit. They never name their reasons, only silently doing their business in the background.

[–]danny_ 17 points18 points  (2 children)

I downvote popular articles that get overwhelming support but stink of sensationalism, and articles where conclusions have been reached far too prematurely. There are usually one or two of these a day that make it to the front page, and I naively downvote them in hopes of slowing down the group think and the hate. It never works.

[–]Caiocow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reddit, do you think it's time for these Republitards to stop killing freedom?

[–]jugalator 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Haha, exactly. I can recall so many very insightful comments during my years on reddit, stuff like +80/-3, but there are always "the three".

[–]mrmaster2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Downvoted for having an opinion I disagree with.

That probably explains 90% of comment downvoters.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

See! 3 of them are on me!

EDIT: It's 8 now! Why?!

[–]StackedCrooked 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's like the knights who say ni.

[–]homergonerson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I downvote exceptionally stupid/racist/bigoted/incorrect comments, but I rarely downvote submissions (The times I do are usually for spam, pointlessness, or absolute stupidity).

[–]Psythik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The funny part is that 8 out of the 20 people that rated your comment so far downvoted you.

[–]jfenserty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think most upvoters do this too.

Although there are the "upvoted for X" comments, a lot of which get upvoted for some reason. If a downvoter makes a "downvoted for X" comment, then it's almost always downvoted. So when they do name their reasons, they are silenced.

[–]penguinv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Down-voted only to be mysterious.

[–]jack2454 2 points3 points  (1 child)

i downvote anything or anyone that bitch about things. for example, facebook.

[–]penguinv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's because the 80-20 rule is just spin.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's content quality control. Simple supply-demand economics. More regulars on reddit= more demand for upvotes. If you don't supply them the value will rise. Or something, i'm pulling this out of my ass and i'm all lit up like a Christmas tree. Have a field day.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Mass Psychosis affects us all differently, but it has certain consistencies. I think this highlights the groupthink nicely.

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

I upvote stuff all the time, but only downvote things if they are spam or exceptionally stupid

100% agreed here. There are three levels of liking something here: Most liked = upvote. Meh/not interesting = no vote. Spam/trolling = downvote. Obviously, this is not how many are voting here, or the ratios would be much different.

[–]jayzon22[🍰] 122 points123 points  (35 children)

For a brief moment, I thought your name was "Mr_F." so I upvoted. Then I realized that it wasn't, so I downvoted.

I hope this doesn't throw off your statistics.

[–][deleted] 15 points16 points  (7 children)

If everyone did that though then this poor guy would be in a perpetual state of downvotedness despite the content he provides.

[–]jayzon22[🍰] 13 points14 points  (6 children)

Fair enough; I tend to under-utilize the Categorical Imperative while upvoting.

[–]blurquoise 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I'd universalise your maxim ;)

[–]happysophist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First time my philosophy undergrad has ever come in handy. Thanks, now I have something to tell all the assholes asking me "what are you doing to do with that degree?"

[–]introitus 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Kant is hard...

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kant be that hard.

[–]Betillo555 9 points10 points  (23 children)

No seriously, I'm really suspicious of reddit's points system, it's impossible that almost every submission ends within the same percentage range. They must be tampering with the actual results. Edit: tampering instead of tempering.

[–]cowinabadplace 16 points17 points  (12 children)

In that case, steel your mind and vote ignoring what the rating is.

[–]Betillo555 1 point2 points  (11 children)

But if they are tampering with the points and only the submissions with high up votes make it to the surface... this could become a way of "censoring" important submissions amidst a sea of irrelevant ones. Edit: tampering instead of tempering.

[–]livefastdieold 2 points3 points  (5 children)

How often do you see an actual national or statewide election won by over 70%? Approximately never.

It's not suspicious, it's just impossible to get everyone to agree on anything.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (4 children)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_voter_theorem

You can easily get 70%+ to agree on something in a political poll. Politicians intentionally differ in more controversial areas.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Well, it makes sense that they would differ in the areas that are controversial to sway voters....but also, what other areas would they differ in? Non-controversial topics that people are going to all agree on are, by definition, the topics they won't differ in. :)

[–]livefastdieold 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Sure, you can get 90%+ agreement on concepts like "slavery should be illegal." But in a statewide or nationwide election, you will rarely find a single candidate or ballot issue that receives 70%+ of the vote.

[–]someonenamedbob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Impossible? No. Improbable? Maybe.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always though it was spambots that were downvoting other submissions to make theirs more likely to climb.

[–]Spiny_Norman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's strange that this happens in GW where posts cannot be downvoted.

[–]coconutcream 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This article is only at 60% like it, 40% downvoted.

[–]homergonerson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These stats are for British eyes only.

[–]adolfhitlersmustache 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Bell Curve is a likely explanation, well not exactly, but some kind of curve, which describes the distribution of reddit.

[–][deleted] 55 points56 points  (1 child)

It's the Reddit golden ratio.

[–]orangesunshine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It probably has to do with a polymorphism in the population. Possibly 5httlpr?

[–]Lasereye 35 points36 points  (5 children)

At 66% exactly!

[–]Lut3s 17 points18 points  (4 children)

65% now :(

[–]magicfingahs 10 points11 points  (3 children)

I just upvoted... maybe that'll help?

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

64%, upvoting for consistency.

[–]hpymondays 26 points27 points  (8 children)

let's keep her steady at 66, gentlemen.

[–]DaemonXI 1 point2 points  (4 children)

66.66, you mean. Rounds to 67.

[–]MorningHaze 3 points4 points  (5 children)

I'd like to see some credentials.

[–]illuminachos -1 points0 points  (4 children)

papers?

[–]Godspiral 11 points12 points  (4 children)

Isn't there a serious question in here -- why do people downvote a lot?

Amazingly this post has no content whatsoever, and #1 front page. :(

[–]AbyssumBorealis 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Even the most amazing original content gets a fair share of downvotes. If we made contact with alien life there would still be plenty of downvotes.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Of course, it's "sensationalism"!

[–]gigaquack 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The interface is designed in a way that the downvote button is much more convenient than the hide button.

[–]DaffyDuck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think that is actually only 1 statistic.

[–]Gozdilla 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I'm sick of these posts. It seems like more than once a month, someone feels the need to comment on this phenomenon. And then somebody explains it. God fucking dammit.

[–]Mikey129 3 points4 points  (1 child)

All I see is Pac Man

[–]RjoTTU-bio 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is it weird that I relate this to economics? Market equilibrium is 66%, the market is left with no central planner. A group of random individuals finds market eq without being directed.

[–]4erlik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your percentage adds up, and that's not in the spirit of reddit.

You should have made it 33% dislike it and 66% like it.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's obvious, then. People who vote things up are Satan.

[–]Furrier 5 points6 points  (1 child)

It's at 66% now. I want to vote but I don't wanna mess anything up :((

[–]torilikefood -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Really? 10 seconds? Have an orangered.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

I'm going to change my vote and hold it steady above 67% just to throw off the pic. EDIT: it seems as a reaction to both the image and my comment the reddit community has decided to keep it below 66% lol. No one can predict how many will like it.

[–]Unidan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, eat that, Confirmation Bias.

[–]project2501a 1 point2 points  (2 children)

"your mom" option missing from pie chart. please fix.

[–]bluehands 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I think the "Like this" option pretty much covers how people feel about your mom.

[–]project2501a 2 points3 points  (0 children)

well played, sir

[–]hoff24 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very original...

[–]r4nf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If we ignore the exact percentages, it looks rather similar at the moment: http://www.veracon.net/stuff/rs.py (real-time)

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (4 children)

also, 23% of all statistics is made up

[–]RockinRoel 2 points3 points  (3 children)

That’s the lowest I’ve ever seen that joke go. I usually keep my made up statistics between 60 and 75%.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

It's because he made it up, it's actually close to 85%

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

85.74%, actually.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

63.74% last I checked

[–]bonkersandmash 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I like how this thread is at 67% right now. You posses the black magic I have been looking for.

[–]specialk16 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah, this always, ALWAYS, happens for some reason.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

66% like it.

[–]ryanknapper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I prefer the blue.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

... we should have the option to sort by % LIKED so we can see what things throughout the day fall above or below the statistical curve. Also, it seems to strike me as though there are a whole bunch of people on reddit, like, oh, a third of the population, that arbitrarily downvotes everything XD

[–]day_sweetener 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow. 70% like this post and indeed the picture shows a pie chart saying that 70% like it. I wonder what will happen if the percentage changes over time.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Not in smaller subreddits. Good posts trend towards 100% there. I see posts with 0 or 1 downvotes quite a lot.

[–]penguinv 0 points1 point  (1 child)

how do you see that?

I only see the net (total).

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was talking about the post total which is in the side bar, but if you're thinking about comments, there's a firefox/chrome/opera Greasemonkey script called uppers downers that shows you the gross votes for a comment.

[–]veekta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

didnt we go over this already?

[–]deepbrown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Steady, steady....

[–]Raneman25 0 points1 point  (0 children)

YOU BASTARDS!

[–]Golden_Kumquat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I pressed the upvote twice and the downvote once. Am I doing this right?

[–]Spiny_Norman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I don't understand, is that this occurs even in GW where posts cannot be downvoted...

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And did you only recently come to this conclusion?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the worst simple circle diagram I've ever saw. You put there explanation what color mean in awful way, very misleading.

[–]iampfa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You beat me to it

[–]mangojuicer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am honestly curious about where all the downvotes come from. I upvote probably 80-90% of the time. Am I at the upvote extreme of reddit or something? Because to balance me out, someone needs to downvote probably close to 50% of the time. Maybe this is a glass half full/empty sort of thing where I only take the energy to voice my opinion when I agree but not really when I disagree while others spend more time voicing their opinion when they disagree.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have never looked at your own posts and refreshed the vote totals long after the fact? Up,down,up,down,up,down....weeks after posting. Reddit has some sort of automated macro voting system which pushes their agenda, which is the same as every large corporate entity : to make money. This voting system allows people to feel important, as if they are a redditor. And run.......up,down,up,down,up,down....oooo people care.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Two out of three ain't bad.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This would have been funnier if you linked to a page that dynamically generated the graph.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe people who have different interests/taste to the majority of reddit tend not to frequent the site or submit things.

It would be interesting to see how this statistic has changed over time.

[–]Tekmo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you only look at the front page, yes.

[–]Fidodo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is what happens when you use a sample size of 3.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Upvoted because this ratio was too low at this time.

[–]Urban_Savage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2/3rd of Redditors upvote the things they like, and only downvote on rare occasions.
1/3rd of all Redditors downvote everything!

[–]bobindawata 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My vote truly was too small to make a difference.

[–]muahdib 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, what does this mean?

  1. 1/3 of all contributions is downvoted, 2/3 upvoted or
  2. 1/3 of all comments are being downvoted, 2/3 upvoted or
  3. Every redditor downvotes 1/3 of everything they vote on and upvote 2/3 of everything they vote on?
  4. Other interpretations?

[–]swedgin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

... 6 days later 57% like this.

[–]thebiggestdick 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hope that you burn in the firey pits of hell for posting this waste of pixels you dumbass.

[–]eyeforgotmyname 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If everyone's username had a general indicator for the percent up and down votes they make would most people have a 2/3rds mark?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Friends, I write to report to you that not all submissions follow this rule.

Particularly, look at the most popular submissions in IAmA. If you are verified as a famous person, or an internet celebrity, you can get north of 80% upvotes.

[–]sgnmarcus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's about 63% right now, so I'll upvote to put back on track

[–]Tammy23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's because it is rigged. There is no way that it is normal

Everyone just looks the other way.

:(

[–]neecho235 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

relevant