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Standard blogspam these days. Gaming sites are rampant with "according to reddit/twitter comments" articles.
by jsbisviewtiful 3y ago
Standard blogspam these days. Gaming sites are rampant with "according to reddit/twitter comments" articles.
- seabrookmx 3y agoThere's literally sites that use AI to mine reddit comments and generate blogspam: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/07/redditors-prank-ai-powered-news-mill-with-glorbo-in-world-of-warcraft/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/07/redditors-prank-ai-po... <insert "I don't want to live on this planet anymore" meme>
- lolinder 3y agoI see these as two separate things. If you're trying to make money as a journalist, yeah, you need something more than "I compiled a few comments from social media", and that kind of story drives me crazy for how low-effort it is. However, if you're just writing a personal blog like this, then taking a comment that you found interesting and replying to it in a long-form blog post is participating in the wider community. It's not that much different than replying to someone else's blog post, the only difference is that the original source is short-form instead of long-form.