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drzaiusapelord
on Jan 12, 2013
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Aaron is dead. From: Tim Berners-Lee
My understanding is that the system begins faking upvotes and downvotes at a certain point to fool spammers.
clicks
on Jan 12, 2013
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Which is still curious, because it's common knowledge at this point that the numbers are fudged. Why even display it at this point? It serves nothing but to cause confusion.
jlgreco
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Even though people know it's fake, I am sure it still plays an important role in gamification.
sp332
on Jan 13, 2013
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The difference between upvotes and downvotes is right, but the absolute numbers are random.
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