Do Reddit links turn Dofollow with a number of upvotes?

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Besides the direct traffic, is it correct to assume that the link turns from nofollow to dofollow, when the post gains a certain number of upvotes?
 
10 upvotes.
 
Looks like you're right and I am very wrong.

For some reason people were memeing 10 a lot in the past and I never bothered to check.
 
I have never bothered to find out what the reason is though. I suspect its either on a sub by sub basis or account age.

All of the gurus say these links don't count for anything but I have ranked sites on Reddit, wiki and forum links alone. May as well grab a few!
 
jjj_ said:
I have never bothered to find out what the reason is though. I suspect its either on a sub by sub basis or account age.

All of the gurus say these links don't count for anything but I have ranked sites on Reddit, wiki and forum links alone. May as well grab a few!
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Absolutely true.

I have trained people to run accounts just for this.

If you get to front page of certain subreddits, you immediately go to front page of search.
 
Reddit is as good a ranking factor as you'd get from "social media", so I can understand why Google would use it. Reddit has some pretty sophisticated anti-spam features, so any post that gets a lot of upvotes is usually going to be legit.
 
bernard said:
Reddit is as good a ranking factor as you'd get from "social media", so I can understand why Google would use it. Reddit has some pretty sophisticated anti-spam features, so any post that gets a lot of upvotes is usually going to be legit.
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Yes though like Quora if you have a network of users it's easy to "launch" a post.

There seems to be some sort of "organic upvote" effect that takes place on both platforms after they get that initial traction.
 
jjj_ said:
Yes though like Quora if you have a network of users it's easy to "launch" a post.

There seems to be some sort of "organic upvote" effect that takes place on both platforms after they get that initial traction.
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Sure, but in my experience, Redditors are quite savvy at spotting spam, so there's some organic pushback against it. Though there's A LOT of manipulation going on in political discussions, but that is big scale operations I'm guessing.
 
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