BeepMike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot
NoWayI mean, if you want more than three people to see the post…
…you’ll have to buy ad space.
How do I do that on Mastodon, Lemmy, Piefed,…?
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comador First mistake: Staying on Reddit. Fuck Spez.
Second mistake: Complaining about Reddit on X. Fuck Musk.
Let’s just hope this user stays away from substack next.
I’m new to this, is substack not the place to be for writers?
So let me get this straight. Some jerk off looking to advertise his site by spamming links on several subs was hoping to AstroTurf COUGH I mean organically post… And Reddit Ad Team saw that and figured they could milk him for some dollars? So this doucher takes to Xhitter to try to get sympathy?
Ahh capitalism at its finest.
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Unless the article is absolutely lying, it mentioned the subreddits wanted the posts and couldn’t overcome the sitewide ban (i.e. manually approving the content). Your comment is a really huge stretch there.
Hardaker is the operator of Mountain Weekly News, and he regularly used to contribute to three or four subreddits
So I am going to stop right there and ignore any conceivably ingenious reply you may come up with to justify and spin what the dude is actually doing. Spend enough time on Reddit like the grownups around here and you’ll eventually understand.
Listen, kid, I’ve been on reddit since 2009. I hung out with the admins in IRC back in the day. I was a default mod for a while, and I’m the “father” of /r/nottheonion.
There’s plenty I don’t know about reddit and life in general, but on this topic, clearly I know a fuck ton more than you.
There was a time on reddit when self-promotion was against the rules. That rule was dropped something like a decade ago.
The simple fact is that - from at least the article’s telling - the subreddits wanted the content, and in that case, it is absolutely fine and encouraged for someone to submit.
There’s a guy making youtube reviews of restaurants in my local city’s subreddit. The content is popular - people like it. So we absolutely are happy to see him post. Is it self-promotion? Yes, technically. It’s also relevant to the subreddit and desired by the mods and members of the subreddit.
You’re like the people saying “dis a repost” when someone CROSS-posts. Note that reddit has a BUILT IN SYSTEM for cross-posting, but there are redditors who don’t know that.
So, little boy, you can take your condescension and /r/confidentlyincorrect along with /r/iamverysmart and fucking LEARN something, or go off and continue to be willfully ignorant.
Disclaimer: If the article’s reporting is incorrect and the subreddits considered it spam, well, that’s not what the article said, and I don’t otherwise have other knowledge of it, nor do I care enough to google for any other possible sources. But that’s the informatio you’re working off of as well, so there’s that.
PS: To add a light-hearted end: I’ll go to /r/dontyouknowwhoiam now :) (that name seems too long. Is that the right one/ Well, you probably know what I mean and I’m too lazy to look it up :P )
atomicorangeWhat the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.
Yeah, but why the fish and the banana? You have to explain that in more detail, my man.
One doesn’t explain copypasta, one is merely a vessel through which the copypasta flows
RedjardI was already in the middle lf posting this to [email protected] before seeing the remainder of your post :)
hahaha. Thanks for the cool sunglasses, too. :)
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TrackinDaKrakenJust one asshole fucking another with a double-headed dildo. That’s all I see.
Or one organic dildo trying to fight a mega-dragon-dildo 10 times its size.
The bigger news here is that Reddit, as a policy, allows bot posting (organic posting) as long as you’re buying ads from them.
Exactly.
It’s one thing for Reddit to be taking action against automated posting and just be doing a shitty job. At least they’d be TRYING to fight against this source of toxic societal corrosive.
It’s a whole other kind of immoral to see that their anti-bot activities are simply cover for the enforcement branch of their ad sales department. Bots are not against the rules at all, spamming communities to create false consensus is A-OK with Reddit as long as the check clears.
Fuck Spez even more. I heard he was a moderator on r/jailbait for quite some time, btw
That’s nothing. I was permabanned for inciting violence or whatever they claimed, which broke rule #1. My “violence” was calling AI stupid (more or less) wishing it’d go away. Ironically, the mod bot banned me.
Mine came from simply saying that a drone would probably take care of a Russian solder seen in a video on crutches heading toward the front lines in Ukraine. Literally just that. Not saying it with any joy or approval, just a statement of fact. Phrased pretty damn much like I said it in this comment here.
dougMy ~19 year old account was permabanned after three strikes that involved two upvotes of Luigi pictures and then— after seeing a vid of Trump falling asleep— saying he shouldn’t wake up.
Then my alt got a warning for “disparaging communities” after I said one of the two PDX subreddits started so they could talk shit about houseless people, which is a fact.
Three of those were flagged by AI, the last one— the warning— was a person flagging it and couldn’t be contested.
It’s gone to the dogs.
I pulled a 3-day ban yesterday for calling ICE racists. Must have really triggered one of the racist mods.
dan1101I am on a 7 day ban for the same sort of thing, pointing out how ICE targets brown people. “Inciting hate”, how is pointing out hate crimes the same as inciting hate? Fight the power.
It’s strong “people who point out racism are the real racists” energy
You got violated for upvoting luigi? I said all sorts of shit with no action on that, although I did get a 2nd violation and abandoned that account and when I came back with a new account all luigi content was gone except for pics which my posts don’t seem to go through on somehow.
I got one for saying musk should be riding in his own spaceshit, for advocating violence, apparently it’s just presumed it will blow up. What else, for accurately stating a cultural difference with another country that lacks sewage and running water for half the population and has a problem with feces polluting the ground and water, India.
We can’t even talk about cultural differences, and problems in society, without getting violated for disparaging others apparently. God forbid we accurately recount a historical situation where some nationalist is embarrassed for the outcome.
I keep hearing stuff like this, makes me wonder if they are even honestly getting those moderations wrong, or if they are pretending to get it wrong to ban you for other reasons. My violations were often in bad faith for other reasons that I got violated for I believe. Did you get into any arguments with like Influence agents for a powerful group? Ie Israel but not limited to.
Probably me shitting on AI was frowned upon. It was a news article or something something to the tune of ‘data centers for AI are stealing jobs faster than know’ and I said once they’re built, its low maintenance bc all the automation. So AI data centers replace people with AI agents and then automate BACnet to maintain the building. Would be a shame if it caught fire and the building AI was compromised and let burn the regular AI…
I’m spitballing my answer, but apparently that was a call for someone to somehow set fire to a datacenter or something even though I never said those words. It was poking fun at the Anikin Skywalker meme “you destroyed the very thing you were meant to protect” kind of shit. Or better yet, when Task Manager freezes.
Oh yeah that makes sense. I’ve backed off several comments about how the data centers are vulnerable because I just know the technofascists are going to be super aggressive going after anyone suggesting anything about data centers blowing up or whatever.
The farthest I’ve gone is bringing up that in the french revolution the first thing the peasants did when they heard the news was mob their local clerk and burn their records building.
I am curious if there are any vulnerabilities to them losing data. Figured I’d get violated for asking on reddit.
0if they are pretending to get it wrong to ban you for other reasons
Oh, this has to be a very common behavior.
Or making overly strict rules because you plan on selective enforgement from the get go.
bonenodeLike you just did with your comment and OP did with their posting: non paid ad posting
REAL humans posting. anything that utilizes bots, AI isnt organic, but reddit often bans the real humans over AI posting.
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Wispy2891Writing spam posts like “I’m really satisfied using this website, totallynotanad.com” or “try using Company XYZ, their service is really good”
It’s a variation on a reddit as I understand it, an unusual sex move. Organic posting is where, well, you don’t want to know.
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