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A lot of what they are doing now is around AI comments and posts, I know this because in some of my subreddits I have various automod filters that align with the way AI writes, I see it all the time where my automod removes something and reddit removes it again after (some kind of race condition), as well as tons of these accounts getting site wide bans. In case you didn't realise, a massive portion of content on red…
A lot of what they are doing now is around AI comments and posts, I know this because in some of my subreddits I have various automod filters that align with the way AI writes, I see it all the time where my automod removes something and reddit removes it again after (some kind of race condition), as well as tons of these accounts getting site wide bans. In case you didn't realise, a massive portion of content on red…
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I remember reading years ago about some corrupt mod in one of the image subreddits - he or his friend had started some image hosting site and had six different Reddit accounts that he used to upvote posts that used his site and downvote all other posts. It took people a long while to notice what he was up to.
the Unidan incident? iirc it only got noticed at the time because of an argument between him and Ecka6 which led to the somewhat famous "here's the thing you said a jackdaw is a crow" copypasta
I cannot emphasize strongly enough just how deeply pervasive the spam is at Reddit. I'm a mod at the ecommerce subreddit, and I've only caught some of the AI-powered marketing operations because in one particular campaign that was making fictional claims about things I had direct knowledge about. Once I looked into the post history, and started to untangle the web of accounts that formed a self-supporting community o…
I'm sure you love Reddit's decision to allow users to hide their post history.
Now I ignore a user based on other criteria (account age post/comment karma + a 50 times compressed repost)
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This practice was perfected by gallowboob years ago. He would spam a link/pic/post and monitor, if the post didn’t gain traction, he would delete and post again as to not trigger protections against the same link being posted. He was a cancer on Reddit and I’m sure he still exists under different monikers. But now there are 100s of gallowboobs.
> He was a cancer on Reddit and I’m sure he still exists under different monikers. But now there are 100s of gallowboobs. Yep, for example: If you mention the name "TurboStrider27" on /r/Games, your comment gets shadowbanned.
I had no idea this was implicitly permitted (and even supported) but it makes sense if it’s been ongoing for so long. It’s no accident.
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There have been incidents where users who reported certain spambots were themselves banned for "report abuse". It's speculated the operators of those spambots pay money to Reddit to not be banned.
I have a 16 year old account and received my first account warning, ever, for reporting a user's comment (to reddit, not the sub) a single time and the admins disagreeing that it violated the guidelines. I have screenshots somewhere, but it basically said if I continued to abuse the report feature my account would be banned. Reddit is a publicly traded company and I sincerely doubt the company is taking some organize…
First and foremost is the destruction of organization of people. If you’ll recall, Reddit used to be an oasis of the internet. Growing up, I was always in awe of the intelligent and impactful discussions that would occur organically (something Hacker News can’t even rival). Now, it’s slop.
There is real value there that Reddit is offering the government. I’m sure other foreign governments (the globalists) also benefit from a weaker people. So I’d imagine it’s the kind of racket that is so high-up, secretive, and decentralized that there is no real culpability and everyone is aware (except the people).
I cannot emphasize strongly enough just how deeply pervasive the spam is at Reddit. I'm a mod at the ecommerce subreddit, and I've only caught some of the AI-powered marketing operations because in one particular campaign that was making fictional claims about things I had direct knowledge about. Once I looked into the post history, and started to untangle the web of accounts that formed a self-supporting community o…
I also help moderate a forum and I noticed the spike in new user signups for spamming has sharply risen over the last two years or so. The majority are most likely using LLMs to automate this. So now we put new registered users into a shadow account where they can post and interact, but it's only visible to them and no one else on the forum for a probation period. It seems to work for now.
I cannot emphasize strongly enough just how deeply pervasive the spam is at Reddit. I'm a mod at the ecommerce subreddit, and I've only caught some of the AI-powered marketing operations because in one particular campaign that was making fictional claims about things I had direct knowledge about. Once I looked into the post history, and started to untangle the web of accounts that formed a self-supporting community o…
I'm sure you love Reddit's decision to allow users to hide their post history.
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I remember reading years ago about some corrupt mod in one of the image subreddits - he or his friend had started some image hosting site and had six different Reddit accounts that he used to upvote posts that used his site and downvote all other posts. It took people a long while to notice what he was up to.
the Unidan incident? iirc it only got noticed at the time because of an argument between him and Ecka6 which led to the somewhat famous "here's the thing you said a jackdaw is a crow" copypasta
https://old.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/2cmdiq/whats_...>