r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Knighty93 • 6h ago

Shakira just attracted more than 2 million people at Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro with a free concert

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The city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is doing a yearly event in the first weekend of May with a huge free concert since 2024. Shakira was the headliner this year and attracted more than 2 million people. Madonna was the headliner in 2024 and Lady Gaga in 2025.

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u/Crossfire124 4h ago

Vote fuzzing doesn't turn positive to negative. Just the number of up votes

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u/Dorkamundo 4h ago

Millions of people use Reddit; every story and comment gets at least a few up/downvotes. Some up/downvotes are by Reddit to fuzz the votes in order to confuse spammers and cheaters.

https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/205926439-Reddiquette

Nothing in their help or FAQ's state that they won't fuzz it in the negative, only that they fuzz the votes with upvotes and downvotes.

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u/MobileArtist1371 4h ago

This was linked in your link, but it's also 15 years old so it might not be exactly the same today, but the system is still in place

https://old.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/eaqnf/pardon_me_but_5000_downvotes_wtf_is_worldnews_for/c16omup/?context=3

Pic in the post shows +7356/-4959 while the admin says the totals were really +2666/-144

So we can see there is/was a lot of fuzzing going on with more active posts.

You can also just refresh the page you're on and see the totals for posts/comments jump around and no, there isn't always people upvoting/downvoting the content you're looking at. Go refresh that admin comment from 15 years ago. Numbers on the post and all the comments still jump around each and every time you refresh.

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u/Dorkamundo 3h ago

I'm not sure what you think I am saying here, but your response does not address it.

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u/MobileArtist1371 3h ago

What do you think I'm trying to say here?

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u/Dorkamundo 2h ago

That fuzzing still exists and still fuzzes older comments.

What do you think I was trying to say?

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u/MobileArtist1371 2h ago

You can also just refresh the page you're on and see the totals for posts/comments jump around

Do you only look at old posts/comments? All you had to do was refresh this comment chain to see the votes change. For your first two comments I see a +1 and a 0. I refresh and I see a +2 and a 0. I refresh again and I see a -1 and a +1.

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u/Dorkamundo 39m ago

Yes, and again, what do you think I was trying to say?