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[–] [deleted] 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

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[–] deadfraggle 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

It's not just for bot purposes.

Apparently, bots are only a small part of the reason they fuzz votes:

It sounds like you're assuming that massive, organized bot operations are the only sort of thing we need to worry about, but that's really not the case. Those sorts of things definitely do show up sometimes, the large majority of the vote-manipulation that's going on all the time is far more "casual", and the vote-fuzzing does a very good job at making it difficult for people to tell how much of an effect they're having .... one of the most common types of vote-cheating on the site is just people that create multiple accounts and use them to upvote everything they post on their main account.

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[–] PrayingMantis 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Why wouldn't they just say that, though? If they had told us the real reason and been completely honest, this probably wouldn't be unfolding the way it is.

Do you think this new system is going to be a good system? Do you think they will revert back to the way the userbase wants things, or do you think they've done too much damage by not saying exactly what's going on?

Personally, I can't really say, because I just don't know.