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Or... maybe they just post good content? You yourself said the extension marks the cumulative amount of upvotes you've given a user. So, unless you yourself ar
by koboll 6y ago
Or... maybe they just post good content?
You yourself said the extension marks the cumulative amount of upvotes you've given a user. So, unless you yourself are engaged in this conspiracy to inflate GallowBoob's upvotes, then all this is evidence of is that GallowBoob seems uniquely skilled at finding and posting viral content.
- nsilvestri 6y agoShortly after GB's rise to fame he was offered a job at one those horrible viral licensing companies, which definitely suggests he's skilled at finding viral content.
- BitwiseFool 6y agoI should have been more clear. RES keeps track of both upvotes and downvotes. Even having a single upvote or downvote will change the color of the submitter's username and make it clear you've voted on their submissions before. I tend to upvote news articles and downvote reposts. I have definitely noticed that these power users recycle a lot of content.
- andrewzah 6y agoHe also is paid to post on reddit. He also submits posts dozens of times, deleting them if they don't gain traction quickly. People don't dislike gallowboob and others because the content is necessarily bad... it's just inorganic and lame. I want to see content from other regular users, not power posters working for firms.
- this_user 6y agoHe has also been repeatedly caught abusing his moderator status to gain more karma. This works by suppressing, or outright deleting, posts made by other users before they can gain traction, and then immediately reposting their content with his own account. And he is by far not the only power mod who is using this tactic.
- asdff 6y agoSome people follow the big accounts directly, so their posts are guaranteed to get early traction then build off exponentially and make the front page all the time.
- koboll 6y agoRight. No one complains when big Twitter accounts go viral more often than small accounts, because it's obvious why. So why the conspiracy-mongering about the same effect on Reddit? Is there any actual evidence that moderatorship confers an outsized likelihood of virality vs. a non-moderator with a similarly gigantic following / karma count?