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>there were a few incidents of /r/The_Donald fully populating the front page, all with 0 upvote scores, which came off suspiciously as if they were deeply messing with the voting system.

You know that reddit doesn't actually show you vote counts, right?

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What I meant was that the numbered score they had next to every post was 0, which is incredibly atypical for that to show up on the front page.

And yes, Reddit removed the ability to see the number of upvotes/downvotes on any item a few years back. Just another way for them to obfuscate the actual results of a post.

Wasn't this when they were trying to ban /r/the_donald outright from /r/all? I feel like they were trying to penalize the "real" score but somehow kept that the same and accidentally set the "fake" score to zero instead.

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