Ask HN: Are more people voting posts up?

The voting base is proportional with the user base, so it would be expected that submissions get more upvotes on average over time (vote inflation).

This is not significant since ranking is determined relative to other posts, which also will receive more upvotes on average for the same reason.

It might be significant if more people upvote on the front page than e.g. in /new, since that would likely increase the "staying power" of submissions on the front page.

And if there is a recent change, changes to the ranking algorithm could explain that.

Reddit has become pretty much unusable thanks to overmoderation lately, so I've largely jumped ship to here. Other people may as well. I hope they don't, but they might.

"Overmoderation" is a per-subreddit thing.

Definitely a higher volume of posts with comments over 200.. not sure if just an influx of people becoming active or if just really interesting news lately