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Blocking /u/GallowBoob did nothing but improve my reddit experience.
by urda 8y ago
Blocking /u/GallowBoob did nothing but improve my reddit experience.
- therealdrag0 8y agoI've seen this comment more recently. I just thought he was a notorious reposter. What specifically is bad about him? (I often don't mind reposts when it's a first time for me..)
- e1ven 8y agoThere are allegations that he's paid to post things on behalf of companies. One such complaint is https://old.reddit.com/r/HailCorporate/comments/amg6kr/netflix_pays_ugallowboob_to_advertise_on_reddit/ https://old.reddit.com/r/HailCorporate/comments/amg6kr/netfl...
- asdff 8y ago'He' is probably a small team of people using that account to repost paid content. There are dozens of massive accounts like this, I wish I had a comprehensive list to filter them all without going through user history one by one.
- rootusrootus 8y agoWhat is the point of aggregating so much traffic into a single account when it is not really a single person? Too easy to notice, too easy to block, why wouldn't someone paying to have content posted use many different accounts?
- trustmath 8y agoThe account eventually gains some level of recognition - while you have vocal haters, you also have people that upvote their content (likely based on the username) to the frontpage. Most of what gallowboob posts is garbage and I guarantee you that if it was coming from accounts with less karma or notariety it wouldn't reach the front-page. You have to consider that some of the people upvoting are people commenting on the threads.
- Sendotsh 8y agoSomething like a blocklist in uBlock Origin that blocks reddit power users. Technically you could say that Gallowboob (and similar) posts ARE ads, and warrant blocking.
- dimensi0nal 8y agoreddit.com##.link:has(.author:has-text(/^GallowBoob$/))