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Comments are a propaganda tool at this point. Commentary is bought and sold to support whatever narrative the purchaser wants.
by zardo 10y ago
Comments are a propaganda tool at this point. Commentary is bought and sold to support whatever narrative the purchaser wants.
- chippy 10y agoThe same can be said of HackerNews comments. I'd imagine that it's a given that Reddit is gamed via comments and submissions, but is it a given that HN comments have similar value?
- zardo 10y agoIt's certainly happening on major news sites and Reddit, but I don't know how far it goes into smaller communities. But... Consider how many comments you could post if you built the tools to manage accounts, did a little automated comment generation, and had a few dozen writers employed cranking them out.