Reddit overhauls upvote algorithm to thwart cheaters
It&#x27;s pretty clear to me that Reddit has always lacked a solid experienced science-driven data person. Someone who can pinpoint an issue, formulate the issue into a product-driven concrete problem, come up with hypotheses on how to fix the problem, then use their vast wealth of data and users to test and&#x2F;or implement them.<p>It&#x27;s not just the ad hoc unintuitive &quot;solution&quot; they came up with to mask votes (which most people agreed was a user-antagonist step in the wrong direction). It&#x27;s a lot of things: their inept response to spam&#x2F;vote brigading&#x2F;other abuse; their lack of personalized content discovery (state of the art from 10-15 years ago would probably suffice). I could go on, as a product-driven data scientist who has been on reddit since the early days, I&#x27;m constantly struck by how little they do with the amazing data they have.