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how would that work? the point of the SEO spam is to fill up a site with 'content' and then sell ads or affiliate links to make money on that site You can't re
by rel2thr 4y ago
how would that work? the point of the SEO spam is to fill up a site with 'content' and then sell ads or affiliate links to make money on that site
You can't really make money by commenting on Reddit, they are very agressive about affiliate links and banning
- Imnimo 4y agoYeah, I'm not sure it would work the same as current SEO spam, but I just feel like some portion of this idea is predicated on mis-aligning incentives. Right now, SEO has no incentive to go after Reddit comments, so Reddit comments are (apparently) higher quality than raw search results. But once search engines start directing people to Reddit comments, the SEO's incentives shift, and it feels like their behavior would change accordingly (although I admit I can't articulate a clear vision of what that new behavior would be), causing the reliability of Reddit comments to plummet. Maybe it's true that Reddit's moderation is sufficient to prevent this from happening, but I feel like I see a decent amount of SEO-adjacent subreddits already, for things like new crypto pump-and-dumps. Before Reddit removed nsfw subs from r/all, you'd sometimes see a bunch of spam links for OnlyFans sites. I could imagine a situation where Brave has to try to distinguish good subreddits from bad subreddits and it becomes just as challenging as distinguishing good websites from bad websites.
- kovek 4y agoIt looks like these days, NLP models are able to “seem” human. Start generating many reddit accounts, act like humans, gain karma. When an important discussion appears, use the army of bots to debate that product A is better than product B EDIT: If previously the race was to make a business look legitimate (page rank), then now it is about making users look legitimate (human rank)
- marcthe12 4y agoShilling and shameless plugs.