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by happymellon 1254 days ago
It has been said that some companies that need to show positive stats will do this slight delay, because all the misclicks show that they are popular. This is why they are top, because everyone uses this feature with an artificial delay!

But that's surely just a conspiracy theory, no company would possibly manipulate their users because that's how you get promoted, or with stack ranking, not fired.