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So much of reddit is on smaller subs where vote fuzzing never or minimally effected vote counts. Fuzzing was most obvious in major subreddits with thousand+ active users The Admins are right in saying that fuzzed counts were mostly illusionary, but subreddits like /r/photoshopbattles which based it's entire content selection on vote counts are now essentially broken. This is coupled with the fact that they didn't inform the dev. community at all, so pretty much every major reddit app is broken right now. Basically, it's not surprising that people are upset about this, it was hasty and poorly implemented, and this says nothing about whether it's a good idea or not, just that this reality is why you're seeing so much backlash.