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Does Reddit have the same problem? Also, would something like this make it to the front page? And if it didn't (because of editorial input), how come it hasn't

by talbina 16y ago

Does Reddit have the same problem? Also, would something like this make it to the front page? And if it didn't (because of editorial input), how come it hasn't been deleted?

fwdbureau 16y ago
Maybe it's just a new meme?
ojbyrne 16y ago
It has been deleted now.
mooism2 16y ago
Someone tried it on HN last week.
- danilocampos 16y ago
  Who? The Facebook resume guy?
  - mooism2 16y ago
    Someone selling pills, I think.
Splines 16y ago
Someone tried astroturfing /r/gaming last week and were called out on it. Truly blatent spam is extremely rare - it's the stuff that's mostly legitimate that has an ulterior motive that is hard to spot.
- adrianN 16y ago
  If it provides enough legitimate content to be useful to the users, it will get upvotes regardless of its ulterior motives. At a certain point an advertisement is entertaining enough to be viewed voluntarily. cf Old Spice guy.
- jokermatt999 16y ago
  For a while, there was a major problem with blogspam on the science subreddit. There was a user who would ripoff content from other sites, paste it into a blogspot site, and slap ads on it. It would regularly get upvoted to the top. He's probably still at, and cursing at people in Hungarian when he gets caught. Ask the folks at /r/ReportTheSpammers about "Ralph" sometime if you'd like to know what spam on reddit looks like.
Pewpewarrows 16y ago
Reddit has a lot more built-in spam protection than is apparent to the average user. Faking that a vote was actually counted for new or questionable users, getting your account flagged for mass-voting a certain way, etc.
knowsnothing613 16y ago
yeah, you can get something like this to the front page of reddit easily, if you and a couple of guys use a tor browser, and create fake logins, and upboat the content. Reddit doesn't have good defenses against tor browsing. Tor browsing/hack is the best way to beat reddit defences, since you can circumvent reddit's IP logging, and cookies.

by talbina 16y ago

Does Reddit have the same problem? Also, would something like this make it to the front page? And if it didn't (because of editorial input), how come it hasn't been deleted?

fwdbureau 16y ago

Maybe it's just a new meme?

ojbyrne 16y ago

It has been deleted now.

mooism2 16y ago

Someone tried it on HN last week.

danilocampos 16y ago
Who? The Facebook resume guy?
- mooism2 16y ago
  Someone selling pills, I think.

Splines 16y ago

Someone tried astroturfing /r/gaming last week and were called out on it. Truly blatent spam is extremely rare - it's the stuff that's mostly legitimate that has an ulterior motive that is hard to spot.

adrianN 16y ago
If it provides enough legitimate content to be useful to the users, it will get upvotes regardless of its ulterior motives. At a certain point an advertisement is entertaining enough to be viewed voluntarily. cf Old Spice guy.
jokermatt999 16y ago
For a while, there was a major problem with blogspam on the science subreddit. There was a user who would ripoff content from other sites, paste it into a blogspot site, and slap ads on it. It would regularly get upvoted to the top. He's probably still at, and cursing at people in Hungarian when he gets caught. Ask the folks at /r/ReportTheSpammers about "Ralph" sometime if you'd like to know what spam on reddit looks like.

Pewpewarrows 16y ago

Reddit has a lot more built-in spam protection than is apparent to the average user. Faking that a vote was actually counted for new or questionable users, getting your account flagged for mass-voting a certain way, etc.

knowsnothing613 16y ago

yeah, you can get something like this to the front page of reddit easily, if you and a couple of guys use a tor browser, and create fake logins, and upboat the content. Reddit doesn't have good defenses against tor browsing. Tor browsing/hack is the best way to beat reddit defences, since you can circumvent reddit's IP logging, and cookies.