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Reddit Has Become a Battleground of Alleged Chinese Trolls

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142 points mzs | 1 comments | 15 Mar 19 15:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.33s | source
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aphextron ◴[15 Mar 19 18:14 UTC] No.19402529[source]▶
All upvote/downvote based social media is inherently toxic to public discourse and extremely manipulable. Something major was lost in the transistion from BBS and forums to this insanity we have now. It used to be that long form discussion and nuanced viewpoints were the norm. If someone had an opinion you disagreed with, you could either refute it or ignore it, not make it dissapear. Now everything thoughtful or balanced in any way is buried under a mountain of “gotcha” quips, and moral certitude, bot or not.
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1. notacoward ◴[15 Mar 19 20:13 UTC] No.19403779[source]▶
It's not just upvotes and downvotes. Twitter doesn't track karma, so people just compete on number of followers or retweets or other measures of "reach" instead. Upvotes are only one way to trigger that dopamine hit.