Same. Suspicion of voting ring activity on Reddit is why I stopped submitting links there years ago.
Though if pg prefers to keep the details obscure to prevent rings from gaming and evading them, I'm cool with that.
Though if pg prefers to keep the details obscure to prevent rings from gaming and evading them, I'm cool with that.
This happened years ago, around 2006 or so, so hopefully you guys have solved the problem now. When I first discovered Reddit I became a contributor, most of my links got upvotes, one or two even hit the front page.
But after a couple months, suddenly every single one my submissions was getting downvoted within the first minute or so of submitting, no exceptions. Even many of my comments were getting pointlessly downmodded.
I figured at best I had pissed off some script kiddie with a downmod bot, at worst a voting ring had begun systematically suppressing competing links.
I just read the site for a while after that without submitting or commenting, eventually created a new handle and retired the original, and then discovered subreddits which imho is the best idea ever. It's not a problem anymore, at least among the subreddits I subscribe to.
I <3 reddit, have learned more from people there, esp Proggit and the like, than even my undergrad education, and was one of your recent contributors. I'm sure the anti-gaming code is significantly more evolved now than it was then. Though as this article and this one at Reddit[1] show, voting rings and the like are still a major problem for social link sites.
[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/d7e24/my_job_was_to_ga...