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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 h
by 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 agoIf 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 agoFor 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.