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Hmm, seems like they don't quite understand how Reddit is supposed to work. I mean yeah, they're not breaking the rules yet. Their articles are mostly being pos
by CM30 9y ago
Hmm, seems like they don't quite understand how Reddit is supposed to work. I mean yeah, they're not breaking the rules yet. Their articles are mostly being posted to their own profile rather than subreddits (though the way it's going now, the 10% rule will be shattered sooner rather than later).
But they're making the usual company mistake on the site. Treating communities as a pure advertising platform rather than a place to engage with the members on their own merits.
They could be commenting on threads that relate to their industry or topics they've wrote about with interesting answers or sharing things that help make them appear as more 'in touch' with the public (like say, Sonic the Hedgehog and Wendy's do on Twitter). Or moderating a Washington Post subreddit where they feature submissions they think help out their publication.
But they're not. They're just advertising the site endlessly on their user page, and making sure every post they make outside said page is an ad for their publication.
Honestly, they're lucky Reddit is going down Facebook/Twitter/whoever's route and trying to be a company friendly advertising platform at the expense of a community or community platform. Otherwise this kind of behaviour would have got them kicked out near immediately, especially on an old school forum or mailing list.
- thatguy0900 9y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/6bj5de/state_of_spam https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/6bj5de/state_of_sp... The 1 in 10 rule is no longer being enforced.
- CM30 9y agoHuh, interesting. Guess it's pretty logical, given how awkward the rule was (a promoter could easily get round it just by submitting a bunch of low effort stories for every one of their own they post) and how it kind of punished creators more than you'd expect. Hopefully this means more mods will take a good look at someone's profile and work out how much they're actually contributing to the community rather than running a bot against their submissions and counting them.
- criley2 9y agoI'm going to dissent here. I went to their page and it does not feel like one big "go to the website" WaPo advertisement. They're responding and engaging with users, even negative ones, they're posting stories, and they're giving an insiders view to the newsroom that they aren't offering anywhere else. I mean, here they are offering exclusive access to journalists for questions and posting exclusive newsroom info, and your criticism is that they're not posting stupid jokes on twitter like Wendy's? If it's all the same to you, I'll take the journalists acting like journalists instead of teenage social media managers!
- CM30 9y agoAdmittedly, I didn't focus so much on the comments as the submissions there. Their comments are certainly more in line with what you'd want from a presence on a site like this, given how they answer other people's questions and all that. But I feel both submissions and comments are important here, and in both cases a brand should do more than post their own work for readers.