Ok, its manipulated but why by financial service companies? Are they trying to trigger stock price movements?
Reddit is being manipulated by big financial services companies
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Re: Reddit is being manipulated by big financial services companies
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Objection! Claim that /r/the_donald is the main "Republican" subreddit assumes facts not in evidence.
I think /r/the_donald is the largest subreddit on the site at this point. It's openly in support of the Republican president. So that seems fair grounds for the claim. On the other hand, a lot of Republicans don't like said president, and it's been observed that he's kind of a democrat from 20 - 30 years ago rather than an actual Republican. But then, a lot of Republican voters think Republicans aren't Republicans, h…
It's clearly the largest Trump-supporter and Trump-troller subreddit on the site, but that's not what the commenter said.
Re: Reddit is being manipulated by big financial services companies
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
It comes from the politics sub, which - to put it mildly - is one of the most suspect subs for manipulation on Reddit. They let that sub appear on the homepage, yet they ban a lot of other similar subs that are on the other side of the spectrum. It's one of those issues where I look at Reddit and think... something isn't right.
> They let that sub appear on the homepage, yet they ban a lot of other similar subs that are on the other side of the spectrum. Perhaps I'm not familiar with the situation. What similar subs have been banned?
r/The_Donald is banned from being a default subreddit while /r/politics is not. That matters because users without accounts or who aren't logged in will see content from r/politics if an article is trending but not an equally trending(?) article from r/The_Donald.
The reasoning behind this is that r/politics doesn't ban people or articles that the mods disagree with. It's the community itself that downvotes pro-Trump stuff. r/The_Donald, on the other hand, bans people who make comments critical of Trump and people who submit anti-Trump articles. Similarly, r/enoughtrumpspam or r/communism should also be banned from making it to the default front page (I don't know if they actually are).
Re: Reddit is being manipulated by big financial services companies
#94Trend to watch in next few years: Phony Actors This same thing happens on all social networks - facebook, instagram, reddit, twitter, etc all have accounts on them that may have naturally grown and are now paid to post / influence content on their respective platforms. I've seen this first hand on Instagram how large of an effect it can have in promoting apps, products etc. Previously disclosing affiliations / paid p…
or it could be the next trend in the work from home movement! get paid to shill on reddit!
Re: Reddit is being manipulated by big financial services companies
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Out of curiosity, was their username always "anon2264" or was it changed when it was banned? If changed, what did they do to get banned? Asking for a friend.
Usernames don't change. Reviewing their comment history, I believe 'sctb is referring to this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=anon2264
I've been told usernames don't change "without good reason". It seems if you're going to ban an account it would be in good taste to either delete it or anonymize it so I was thinking this might be one of those "good reasons". I've been wanting to delete or anonymize my account for a long time. I doubt I'd go as far as trying to get my account banned to do it, but I'm curious if it's an option.
Re: Reddit is being manipulated by big financial services companies
#96Reddit is awesome for tons of small game communities, I hope whatever happens on those apparently more important subreddits won't ever affect that
Niche interest subreddits are about the only thing Reddit is good for anymore as far as I'm concerned. I don't subscribe to a single default sub and never check the front page.
I subscribe to subs like sysadmin, woodworking, ruby and bicycling. The front page and defaults are just horribly toxic.
Re: Reddit is being manipulated by big financial services companies
#97I'm not sure how anyone can think discussions on reddit are not manipulated at this point. If you watch carefully, you see the exact same verbiage used from multiple accounts on the same topic used to steer conversations. And as new responses come up, there will be a multi-hour delay, then new verbiage will get posted simultaneously to multiple accounts. There is clearly behind-the-scenes writing efforts going on, th…
Do you have an example?
I saw a bunch of examples just like this:
https://i.redditmedia.com/C87zcWzT3KPN0Sdo4YfMIe2Rd0oLWTwBsX...
Sometimes the fake accounts will even have identical comments and only post in each others comment chains.
Re: Reddit is being manipulated by big financial services companies
#98It's a shame this has happened. It used to that aggregated news was the best news because it wasn't opinionated. It also didn't need to focus on the big ticket items (murder, sex, drugs) like newspapers, as sales weren't a concern, so you have science, tech, and I kid you not, actual good news to read about! But now with the pay-to-get-upvotes scams going on, we get utterly biased and even ridiculous stories constant…
> "Donald Trump's war on media is 'biggest threat to democracy' says Navy Seal who brought down Osama Bin Laden". What is this an example of? This sounds like exactly the kind of thing that I would expect on the front page if there was no vote manipulation.
Because being an elite soldier does not make your opinion on democracy particularly newsworthy? It's obviously a clickbait headline. I would also add to that those "Pope says [insert political commentary]" articles.
Re: Reddit is being manipulated by big financial services companies
#99I'm not sure how anyone can think discussions on reddit are not manipulated at this point. If you watch carefully, you see the exact same verbiage used from multiple accounts on the same topic used to steer conversations. And as new responses come up, there will be a multi-hour delay, then new verbiage will get posted simultaneously to multiple accounts. There is clearly behind-the-scenes writing efforts going on, th…
As a heavy user, I find myself using the same verbiage I read. I often find myself repeating, sometimes verbatim, comments I've read days, or even weeks/months ago.
This is the danger with just being in an echo chamber, because you yourself become part of the echo.
Re: Reddit is being manipulated by big financial services companies
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Usernames don't change. Reviewing their comment history, I believe 'sctb is referring to this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=anon2264
I've been told usernames don't change "without good reason". It seems if you're going to ban an account it would be in good taste to either delete it or anonymize it so I was thinking this might be one of those "good reasons". I've been wanting to delete or anonymize my account for a long time. I doubt I'd go as far as trying to get my account banned to do it, but I'm curious if it's an option.
I haven't heard that usernames change, though users do sometimes use multiple accounts. As I understand it, accounts don't get deleted, however, only abandoned.