More evidence of suppression on /r/Bitcoin ?

[rogerver]

This isn't hard proof, but it seems very very strange to me that the #1 item being discussed on /r/BTC doesn't have a single upvote on /r/Bitcoin

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Other than intentional suppression, what else could cause this disparity in up votes?

[NLNico]

First of all important to emphasize that moderators are not in control of any voting. I am just saying this before this is used for propaganda for an argument "/r/bitcoin is censoring BitPay". In a way your topic here can be interpret as "/r/bitcoin is censoring BitPay" for some people even if you don't mean it like that, so that's why I am saying that this is not true.

Secondly the post in /r/btc was posted 8h ago and in /r/bitcoin 1h ago, so it's not a fair comparison (especially because US and EU is still sleeping.) There is still a chance the /r/bitcoin one will become more popular.



But I think it's also about the actual content being shared..

- /r/btc users are mostly the type of "pro XT, pro BIP101, fuck theymos, censorship everywhere, etc".. so *anything* related to that, will be upvoted relatively really a lot.

- Some of /r/bitcoin obviously dislike XT (myself included) and because of FUD from "both sides", they associate BIP101 with XT (myself -not- included.) This may cause some people to downvote anything BIP101 related (I upvoted it, just FYI.) But I don't think that's the main problem here..

- Realistically, it is not really interesting. These are not testing results. There is no context whatsoever. It has not much meaning (what is BitPay doing exactly??) So I personally don't mind that the awesome presentations and debate(!!) from DevCore are dominating /r/bitcoin currently instead of this "small BitPay thing". Still I do think the testing is great, even though I am not a BIP101 supporter. Testing is great and I assume this means BitPay can show the BIP101 test blocks on their Insight software, so that is just fine. Still not huge news or anything. If there are some interesting test results eventually, I definitely hope it will be on top of /r/bitcoin





edit: Actually this is only evidence how terrible /r/btc is, if anything. This great presentation of Andreas Antonopoulos = 5 votes, Panel discussion = 7 votes, Greg Maxwell speech = 13 votes. All great videos.

Meanwhile the highest up-voted thread with 168 points is "how to improve the PM spam" (really, spamming = good now?) Second is your small detail without context from BitPay with 91 points.

How can you seriously suggest that the voting on /r/btc is much better?

[rogerver]

Thank you for such a well thought out and reasoned response with zero ad hominem attacks!
Forums need more posters like you!

I think you are right that it may point out the difference between the users bases of each sub-reddit.

It would be interesting for someone to run a more controlled experiment where the posts aren't seven hours apart.

[bg002h]

Looks like things have evened out. I see 50+ up votes on /r/bitcoin now

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