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It's not an insane conspiracy when you acknowledge that they bootstrapped their community through fake accounts[1]. This shows they have no reservations about u
by getmeinrn 3y ago
It's not an insane conspiracy when you acknowledge that they bootstrapped their community through fake accounts[1]. This shows they have no reservations about using deception to increase their brand's reputation. Fake app reviews falls into that category.
1. https://www.themarysue.com/reddit-fake-account-origins/ https://www.themarysue.com/reddit-fake-account-origins/
- mAritz 3y agoThey (admins) recently started a couple of new German language subreddits, that were 1-to-1 translations of existing successful subreddits, like r/showerthoughts and r/explainlikeimfive. They very clearly created fake accounts that then posted badly translated copies of existing posts from those originals onto the new subreddits. Then after that they sent unsolicited private messages to users subscribed to certain organic German language subreddits (like r/de) inviting people to those new subreddits. The r/de subreddit is still in blackout, so I can't really provide a working source right now, but once that ends, you can check it out here: https://reddit.com/r/de/comments/13orxh0/milde_interessant_reddit_admins_machen_werbung/ https://reddit.com/r/de/comments/13orxh0/milde_interessant_r...
- adamckay 3y agohttps://archive.ph/HI8dn https://archive.ph/HI8dn
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- qjx 3y agonot to mention the ceo also edited user comment because he disagreed with it, banned subs with no consistency, and for the r/place event, people caught admins cheating by placing tiles with no cooldown. who knows what other shady stuff goes on in the background
- FireBeyond 3y agoLet's not even mention that the CEO was the head moderator of r/jailbait and several other... "distasteful" subreddits before they were shut down.