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https://www.reddit.com/r/hailcorporate https://www.reddit.com/r/hailcorporate started to gain some momentum and was killed fast. My guess is that the professio

by kartan 7y ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/hailcorporate https://www.reddit.com/r/hailcorporate started to gain some momentum and was killed fast. My guess is that the professional community, people that earn money manipulating/contributing paid-content to Reddit, is quite big. Or, at least, their impact is really big. Most people are just readers and Reddit professionals have time, motivation and knowledge to game the system. I have fun reading Reddit. And I read it very often. But, I do not trust all the enthusiasm about any movie/service/app or similar that the community generates. It is usually over the top and not very useful to actually get a good idea of the quality of such a product. I think that as a society we need to develop new mechanisms to deal with the situation. Probably regulation is one of them. But, for people to able to understand that not everything in the internet is true is also important. It will take time, people still think that reality shows are real, but I think that is feasible.

zaksoup 7y ago
> [...] and was killed fast. I'm /r/OutOfTheLoop... what happened that Hail Corporate was killed?
- jjulius 7y ago
  It appears to be open, the most recent post was 27 minutes ago. I'm not sure what OP is referencing.
  - ryder9 7y ago
    they're prone to making conspiracies, a lot of r/conspiracy type people there
- kartan 7y ago
  > what happened that Hail Corporate was killed? As has happened with other subs, it began to be full of extreme opinions on one side and the reasonable posts were downvoted in the other. So, you end up with a toxic environment where it is difficult to have a rational conversation. I am really grateful for the moderation done in Hacker News. I have seen also that kind of strategy tried here. Controversial posts being promoted to the main page and fake extreme opinions show up in the comments. But, the post is flagged a later removed. That stops the anger to spread to real users.
PhasmaFelis 7y ago
> https://www.reddit.com/r/hailcorporate https://www.reddit.com/r/hailcorporate started to gain some momentum and was killed fast. Killed how? They've got 168,000 subscribers and seem to be fairly active.
- redwall_hp 7y ago
  Socially killed. It was turned into a joke quickly, and most people seem to roll their eyes and mumble something about tinfoil hats whenever astroturfing is brought up.
- toper-centage 7y ago
  They became a meme.

by kartan 7y ago

zaksoup 7y ago

> [...] and was killed fast. I'm /r/OutOfTheLoop... what happened that Hail Corporate was killed?

jjulius 7y ago
It appears to be open, the most recent post was 27 minutes ago. I'm not sure what OP is referencing.
- ryder9 7y ago
  they're prone to making conspiracies, a lot of r/conspiracy type people there
kartan 7y ago
> what happened that Hail Corporate was killed? As has happened with other subs, it began to be full of extreme opinions on one side and the reasonable posts were downvoted in the other. So, you end up with a toxic environment where it is difficult to have a rational conversation. I am really grateful for the moderation done in Hacker News. I have seen also that kind of strategy tried here. Controversial posts being promoted to the main page and fake extreme opinions show up in the comments. But, the post is flagged a later removed. That stops the anger to spread to real users.

PhasmaFelis 7y ago

> https://www.reddit.com/r/hailcorporate https://www.reddit.com/r/hailcorporate started to gain some momentum and was killed fast. Killed how? They've got 168,000 subscribers and seem to be fairly active.

redwall_hp 7y ago
Socially killed. It was turned into a joke quickly, and most people seem to roll their eyes and mumble something about tinfoil hats whenever astroturfing is brought up.
toper-centage 7y ago
They became a meme.