BeepFeb 24

Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot

https://lemmus.org/post/20400826

Show threadFauxLiving
The bigger news here is that Reddit, as a policy, allows bot posting (organic posting) as long as you’re buying ads from them.
Feb 24 at 4:34amWeb
Show threadwltrFeb 24
C’mon, is it news? Isn’t that the reason we’re all here?
Show thread20dogsFeb 24
I mean there’s gut feeling and then there’s real actual evidence.
Show threadFauxLivingFeb 24

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