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It's more than likely that they'll inject their own softball questions and focus on those instead of addressing everyone's concerns in any meaningful way.

• pwillia7 3y ago
  good test for the new AI bot accounts
• hospitalJail 3y ago
  When they removed the upvote/downvote count, it was clear reddit was fine with manipulation. Anything I read on the website has been met with extreme skepticism since it very well could be an astroturfer. It's money. Reddit wants astroturfers, it grows their platform and helps sell ads.
  • rootusrootus 3y ago
    > Anything I read on the website has been met with extreme skepticism since it very well could be an astroturfer. Good advice for any site. It's not like HN is immune to astroturfing.
    • hospitalJail 3y ago
      You have more courage than me to say that here.
  • chippiewill 3y ago
    > When they removed the upvote/downvote count, it was clear reddit was fine with manipulation I wasn't a big issue to me tbh. Vote fuzzing had always made those counts meaningless.
  • CincinnatiMan 3y ago
    May not even need to be an astroturfer, it could be u/spez directly. Don’t forget that he went rogue and modified a user’s comment in the Reddit database!
    • spiffytech 3y ago
      Or that the Reddit founders used fake users to make the young site look busy: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddit-founders-made-hundreds-of-fake-profiles-so-site-looked-popular/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddi...
  • kobalsky 3y ago
    > it was clear reddit was fine with manipulation talking about manipulation, reddit's current ceo edited users comments back when the bad guys were on business side of it. https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-edit-comments https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-stev...
• TylerE 3y ago
  Let's talk about Rampart!
  • berniedurfee 3y ago
    Love that game!