I'm curious if anyone else had a similar experience to mine.
I started noticing that when I made a new post on r/conspiracy, the upvotes and upvote percentage didn't align. For instance, I would have 10 upvotes, and it would say 83% upvoted. Not possible. No one can give you a percentage of an upvote or downvote. In case anyone wants to see the math on that...
10/x = 83/100
x=12.05
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Are you saying it's built into the code to weight upvotes/downvotes on controversial posts? Or are you saying it's supposed to look mathematically unsound for a certain period of time?
Both. Reddit even admits this on the Site manual, but it happens more on controversial posts.