i've talked to a reddit engineer before and he said that the masking of votes wa...

		thesimpsons5454 on Dec 7, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reddit overhauls upvote algorithm to thwart cheate... i've talked to a reddit engineer before and he said that the masking of votes was done more as an architectural decision rather than a feature. They have a queue of votes that takes forever to process and it's easier to mask the count than keep up with it