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Although, I rarely comment in /r/Linux and no longer submit content there as often as back in 2017
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Frankly, I'd say that the upvote/downvote system does not work, or barely works. I'd much rather have strong moderation, and those days I have been convinced that we'd better not have this kind of voting at all.
The system is easy to game (brigading and similar) and still prioritizes vocal minorities. Since votes affect visibility, getting a lot of upvotes early can cascade into a lot more people seeing and upvoting with it while good posts/replies that miss their "window" (or are downvoted by enough trolls early on) are summarily ignored.
But I think the biggest problem is the focus on "engagement", same as other social media. It promotes content that elicits strong emotions instead of content that is quietly good. Memes and viral content, but also outrage. It's angry people upvoting angry rants all the time.
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That's why I left Reddit as well, just pure toxic most of the time.
Oddly enough I only joined reddit because a LUG member highly suggested. A few weeks after that, they informed me that they were leaving it due to toxicity.