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The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history

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Re: The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history

#12
post #3

I wonder if EA will need to get a new user account.

I don't know what reddit gold does but could they have given themselves those 12 to counteract the downvotes?

They can give themselves gold if they want. I'm not sure how it affects the downvotes, or if it does.

Re: The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history

#13
post #10

Only 19 hours old, too. One thing to keep in mind is that Reddit used to normalize votes until about a year ago or so, such that it was exceedingly rare for a post to get beyond triple digits (both positive and negative). I wonder how many older unpopular comments would have made it into the negative six figures if vote totals had been uncapped sooner.

I'm not sure, but let's try and just talk about Rampart ok?

Re: The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history

#16
Wow that's some incredible brigading. One of the most upvoted comments (it might be the most upvoted one, don't know) is at a mere 98.6K: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5h7gq8/i_was_goofy_at...

The most upvoted post is 283K: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/5gn8ru/guardians_of_...

Considering how upvoted-items get more and more visible, and thus more and more upvotes, it's a huge achievement for a downvoted comment to have that much engagement.

edit: via r/subredditdrama, the most downvoted comments noted so far:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ListOfComments/wiki/downvoted

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/7cicb7/user...

Re: The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history

#18
post #10

Only 19 hours old, too. One thing to keep in mind is that Reddit used to normalize votes until about a year ago or so, such that it was exceedingly rare for a post to get beyond triple digits (both positive and negative). I wonder how many older unpopular comments would have made it into the negative six figures if vote totals had been uncapped sooner.

According to the admins, the scores on older posts were recalculated after the scoring was changed.
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