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The Reddit trick is increasingly less viable as marketers are astroturfing Reddit.
by Red_Leaves_Flyy 4y ago
The Reddit trick is increasingly less viable as marketers are astroturfing Reddit.
- giraffe_lady 4y agoThat's been a significant factor on reddit since 2008 or so. It may be getting worse or the dynamics changing, idk, but it's nowhere near new.
- VHRanger 4y agoOne advantage is that Reddit has a distributed network of volunteer mods whos incentives align with that of their own subreddit. Google on the other hand has automated centralized content moderation.
- Night_Thastus 4y agoAgreed. What I've seen become more common is the following: * They'll start by having <5 real comments that seem like a legitimate person wrote them * Account suddenly starts just re-posting very popular older posts, and other bots chime in that also copy the top comments from that post letter-for-letter * Account goes on to shill some product