So I checked out reddit after a long time and was going through the top of r/videogames subreddit and I could clearly see a pattern in most of the posts there. Posts were mostly like “what game ______ for you?” or “what game _____ like this?” Now I could be wrong but it doesn’t feel ‘organic’ (if that’s correct way to put it). It’s like these are put up intentionally. Thoughts?
It’s been going on for a long time before I left the place. I think it’s more survival of the fittest in action. Posts are not sorted just by upvotes but the number of comments is taken into account as well. Most sane subs have a rule against begging for for upvotes, so people pivoted to encouraging comments with this kind of posts. Easy way to get to the top of the sub.
I used to report the more blatant ones wiht “comment baiting is a form of vote manipulation”. Not that I was expecting mod action, but I felt a bit better afterwards.