Back in the days DevRant used to be a small community. A rant would be seen by all, with a higher chance of marking the stress ball incentive target.
Now, those upvotes are distributed among many more users who have the privilege of upvoting to what they find more interesting.
However, this is not a rant about who has a better chance of winning a stress ball; it's about feeling proud how this community grew so healthy, and tailor made for developers!! :)
Kudos! I love this community

Thanks.

You do touch on something we're always striving to improve though. We want to make sure quality rants receive maximum exposure. Your observation that there are more rants so harder to get upvotes is definitely true. So we have to figure out how to beat optimize that and we're always open to ideas. I guess while there's more rants competing for upvotes, there's also a lot more users so a better chance of quality rants getting a lot of upvotes, but unfortunately that doesn't always happen.

Ideas on this are always welcome.

Honestly as the community grows I find myself becoming more liberal with downvotes. Does that affect exposure overall or just in my feed?

@dox I agree with @masterdoctor, do it a la reddit

@dfox there was talk before of auto ++ if you comment on rants. Do you take no. Of comments into consideration in the algo?

@chzbgr good question. We do give extra weight to rants with more comments!

@dfox ouhhh this is a game changer. At least we now know the level of rich content we should use ;)