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How Reddit Got Huge: Tons of Fake Accounts https://www.vice.com/en/article/z4444w/how-reddit-got-huge-tons-of-fake-accounts--2 https://www.vice.com/en/article/
by ecommerceguy 3y ago
How Reddit Got Huge: Tons of Fake Accounts
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z4444w/how-reddit-got-huge-tons-of-fake-accounts--2 https://www.vice.com/en/article/z4444w/how-reddit-got-huge-t...
Reddit has always seemed to have gotten a pass when it comes to being a cesspool of fake accounts, what we would call bots today. I'm really hoping it fails, it's leadership team has always been amongst the worst of the tech companies.
- dopa42365 3y agoSomething that happened 15 years ago when reddit had 50 users isn't evidence for anything today, really.
- ecommerceguy 3y agoLike I said, Reddit has seemed to have always (including now) received a pass when it comes to fake accounts responding to each other to make it seem Reddit had more activity then in reality. Certainly unethical then and I don't think much has changed as far as ethics goes, now.
- zeruch 3y agoI think you're being a bit overblown. If it was just bots, it would have fizzled out sooner; the bot account trash has waxed and waned over time, but I suspect the big reason it worked is that for years it allowed any subcommunity to emerge naturally rather than trying to predicatively shape it. And there are many worse examples of leadership in tech than Reddit. If anything until recently most of its C-suite historically (post founders) has been uninteresting enough to care. No one on the scale of a Gates, Neuman, Ellison, etc. The recent turdstorm however, does signal a likely lamentable shift downward.
- rvba 3y agoThe bots didnt disappear. They just got better and harder to spot.
- onetokeoverthe 3y ago[dead]