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by Workaccount2 1523 days ago
r/t_d basically pulled every single trick in the book to frontpage their content constantly.

However I think that no matter what they (reddit) would have had their hand forced eventually. The site has grown massively since 2015.
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Perceval 1523 days ago
It was really just one trick, which was to immediately sticky select new posts. Those posts would garner large amounts of upvotes immediately by virtue of being stickied at the top of a subreddit where most users did not browse reddit overall but rather just browsed the sub. Reddit's algorithm favors posts that really take off with lots of votes right away, so as a consequence The_Donald's posts were constantly making r/all.
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flutas 1523 days ago
> It was really just one trick, which was to immediately sticky select new posts.

and (imo) if they were really wanting to fix this trick they would have just made it so something that was ever stickied couldn't show up on /r/all. Instead they did what (to me) was basically a complete change of their algorithm with very slow changes to placement.

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