I don't understand why you would even publicize this. Just stop counting those users' votes, if that's what you want to do?
There's enough fuzz in the vote counts that no one would notice, and you wouldn't have any controversy on your hands.
There's enough fuzz in the vote counts that no one would notice, and you wouldn't have any controversy on your hands.
Those user's votes don't matter, scaring the userbase into narrowing their overton windows of acceptable reddit voting is what matters.
More broadly Reddit wants to be seen as taking action. The incentive structure facing that company rewards loudly making a slight improvement to the site over quietly making a huge improvement.
It is amazing how people will redefine hating Trump supporters, men, white people, "the 1%", western civilization etc as somehow 'not hateful'. "My hate isn't hate, I just dislike things that are bad." Right.