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Reddit raises $410M in new funding

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Re: Reddit raises $410M in new funding

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Post by dcist »

throwaway1777 wrote: post #399
lordlic wrote: post #356

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This is an absolutely bizarre proposal. You want moderators to willingly pollute their subreddit with ads in exchange for personally getting a kickback from reddit? Users would either migrate en masse to competing subreddits with decent mods, or they'd stay due the same old problems with moderator inertia...

I think they mean it would be better than the astroturfing that goes on currently

Agreed and it would make the mod position self-sustaining.

Re: Reddit raises $410M in new funding

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Post by Doctor_Fegg »

lostlogin wrote: post #496
Doctor_Fegg wrote: post #494

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Reddit has gross adverts already: Huel, some self-help thing, naff Adobe ads endorsed by some Reddit superuser from a corner of the site I never read. I’d far rather they were relevant to the subs I do read.

If you could pay to remove them, would you?

I’d probably pay for a “premium” service that let me generically block stuff on Reddit - /r/popular is infested with a lot of stuff I’ll never be interested in.

Re: Reddit raises $410M in new funding

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Post by bserge »

tpush wrote: post #295
bserge wrote: post #195

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I wrote my suicide note on my own subreddit and got banned (site wide) for threatening violence. Err, OK, gotta find a safer place for that. Sadly, as you might be able to tell, I wasn't able to do it. It's terrifying. Also why should I die while worse people live? Gotta do something about them before going myself, d'uh.

Are you announcing a murder-suicide here? @dang

It would be stupid of me to do that. Besides, death is easy, living in suffering is where the real hell is. And it's much easier to achieve, would you look at that.

Re: Reddit raises $410M in new funding

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Post by bserge »

dang wrote: post #383
bserge wrote: post #195

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I wrote my suicide note on my own subreddit and got banned (site wide) for threatening violence. Err, OK, gotta find a safer place for that. Sadly, as you might be able to tell, I wasn't able to do it. It's terrifying. Also why should I die while worse people live? Gotta do something about them before going myself, d'uh.

I'm glad you're here. If there's any chance that connecting would be helpful, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and I'll send you my personal email.

Well, of course, knowing that people out there are suffering with no ways way out triggers basic human pleasure.

Re: Reddit raises $410M in new funding

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Post by mateo411 »

tomjen3 wrote: post #80
mateo411 wrote: post #74

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It's easier to track in the app because of the mobile advertising identifier.

That doesn't seem to be the case any more, as nearly everybody opts out of that on iOS.

There are still some people who use the reddit application and have Android phones.

Re: Reddit raises $410M in new funding

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dcolkitt wrote: post #9

On a visitor perspective, this seems undervalued. This is a 50% or more discount to the market-cap/unique visitor ratio of Twitter, Snap, and Facebook.[1] And all the stats I've seen indicate much higher user engagement and time on site for Reddit compared to the other social platforms. The biggest issue is of course that their monetization is horrible. Like 95% lower per user than the other socials.[2] So the real q…

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