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by space_fountain 1673 days ago
Remember spam is an adversarial relationship. Almost certainly when whatever ranking change was exploited here was deployed the top ranked items were great, then some actor started realizing what was being selected for and exploited it
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This, and the comment above about 2 through a billion, seem pretty spot on from what I know from talking to people still working there.