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An open letter: if you market your product by spamming Reddit et al. with fake stories (as this guide suggests), we: 1. can all tell 2. will not use your prod
by wibbily 7mo ago
An open letter: if you market your product by spamming Reddit et al. with fake stories (as this guide suggests), we:
1. can all tell
2. will not use your product
Please stop polluting the global commons
Signed everyone <3
- risyachka 7mo ago>> can all tell the reality is most users can't tell. you can see it under every ai post on reddit, unless it is creaming ai in every word.
- philipp-gayret 7mo agoI don't condone it but the best marketing I've ever seen and which gets to the top of Reddit every week is a company that runs a paid IQ test website. They post some type of outrage bait and it always gets traction. Practically nobody in the comments can tell; they're all focused on how some imaginary character in an image is boasting about an IQ score of 99.
- jasondigitized 7mo agoYou have an example in the wild?
- philipp-gayret 7mo agoLooking around on Reddit I see a lot of them have started to get banned, I was able to find the name of it though; Aptilink. An Aptilink viral marketing search yields posts like these; https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/18iyl5v/linkedin_ceo_completely_exposes_himself/ https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/18iyl5v/linkedin_... and people discovering it's marketing: https://www.reddit.com/r/HailCorporate/comments/1e9t44j/aitah_post_masquerading_as_circumcision_ragebait/ https://www.reddit.com/r/HailCorporate/comments/1e9t44j/aita...
- wibbily 7mo agoMaybe the solution is to ban editing. Or let moderators review + approve edits at least. The gambling site “Stake” was doing the same thing recently, they’d make posts on financial advice or gaming subreddits and edit in a link (as to be “oh btw I need advice because I made money betting”). Were even using Greek Unicode “a”s and “e”s to hide from the automod filters. Scumbags among scumbags
- pydry 7mo agoI see about 50 posts a week which look like theyre raising an interesting point for discussion and about 3/4 of the way through it is a link to a blog or tool. That said, what form of marketing actually works and is honest? I cant think of much.
- Torwald 7mo agoOne good example would be PGs essays. They are honest, I suppose, and they are very successful marketing.
- Brajeshwar 7mo agoThis seems to be happening everywhere there is a user community (potential customers), such as LinkedIn and Twitter. Many times, I’ve been “surprised” to find that, within a span of few hours, many people on LinkedIn/Twitter share similar anecdotes, punchlines, realizations, and everything in between. Of course, they all end with asking to say the MAGIC word(s) to reward the “selected few” in their DMs. Gone are the days when we used to just give things out - here is the link to the zip file, download and do whatever you want. Go ahead, “Say friend and enter.” Edit/Update: About that “Tell”, honestly, I think a lot too many have no clue.