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HP CEO: You're 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies (www.theregister.com)
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[–] Deuces@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I'm not sure, but I think part of the problem is that the votes are "real". Since every instance has to have the same number of up/down votes they can't get away with fudging the numbers. I have no hard evidence that reddit does, but I suspect they do to increase engagement.