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If you go on poal, voat, patriots.win, ANY social media site that allows likes / upvotes that isn't main stream you'll notice consistently the participation rate in upvoting is LOW. Not the amount that could have upvoting, but just the shear participation rate.

This has led me to believe twitter, youtube, reddit etc all partake in false upvote counts etc simply to boost the perceived participation.

Sites like gab, voat, poal, patriots.win etc may already have more clout than it seems like they do.

If you go on poal, voat, patriots.win, ANY social media site that allows likes / upvotes that isn't main stream you'll notice consistently the participation rate in upvoting is LOW. Not the amount that could have upvoting, but just the shear participation rate. This has led me to believe twitter, youtube, reddit etc all partake in false upvote counts etc simply to boost the perceived participation. Sites like gab, voat, poal, patriots.win etc may already have more clout than it seems like they do.

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[–] • 4 pts

It's a part of consensus cracking.

[–] • 3 pts

Poal has way more lurkers than active voters.

You don't have to be registered/logged to browse posts and their comment threads.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

That’s true for all the sites listed as mainstream as well, though.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

If it's not a trade secret, what the percentage that post/comment vs lurk?

[–] • 2 pts

Basically, everything we perceive is faked. I'm constantly reminded of Star Trek episodes where the crew is in a made up environment and near the end, they discover their whole experience was an illusion.

[–] • 2 pts

Duh! (((They))) always try to control the narrative and this is just another way to steer NPCs to follow that narrative.

[–] • 1 pt

Oh, you just figured that out?

[–] • 0 pt

I'm really looking forward to when I can cash in my sweet, sweet internet upvotes.

[–] • 0 pt

Mobile focussed apps also make a difference, but yeah. Games votes

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Gotta pump that narrative by signaling which way the sheep are supposed to go... lol.

Communist tranny mods, so it would be expected.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Typically only a small percentage of viewers. I've gone days without commenting or upvoting. For the views to votes ratio, you can view it 100s of of times, but can only vote on it once per account.

[–] • 0 pt

the user base is also much smaller on these sites so its hard to say