Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed

#For sale: Ads that look like legit Reddit user posts

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  • db0
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    36 months ago

    Not really, I started moving /r/piracy when I saw spez doubling down. By that point the writing was on the wall.

    • @[email protected]
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      26 months ago

      From all of the times I had spent in your subreddit, the admins were always rubbing their hands together to find any and all excuses to nuke your subreddit. Every other moderator announcement it was always about trying to meet admin demand after admin demand but it was never enough. It’ll never be enough.

      • db0
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        36 months ago

        surprisingly, it’s still up. I got demodded under suspicious circumstances and now some of the remaining mods keep doing the unpaid janitorial duties for spez to make couple hundel mil per year.

    • Flying Squid
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      16 months ago

      I think you’re really underestimating how people are pulled in by sunk cost. I think many people, especially mods, earnestly believed that because they had invested a lot of time and effort into Reddit, Reddit would listen to them if they protested.

      That’s not their fault, that’s just human nature. You were able to overcome that, which is good, but I don’t blame anyone for not being able to at the time. A year later is another matter.