Reddit Tries to Get Users to Pay by Making App Icon Ugly (9to5mac.com)
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There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.
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Totally not suspicious timing at all....
The Mod Helper Program is a tiered system that awards helpful moderators with trophies and flairs. Reddit users accrue karma by receiving upvotes and awards, and lose karma if they receive downvotes. The program rewards moderators who receive upvotes on comments in r/ModSupport....
Another threat from Reddit management.
There’s a QR code on r/place that links here and it seems some of the pixels are suddenly changing without any users attached to those changes – unlike everywhere else...
https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/80b9ff14-59bd-4190-a0ee-c5e66834535f.webp...
cross-posted from: infosec.pub/post/2026142...
Reddit just became a lot more friendly to bots, and a lot less friendly to humans.
Someone (Reddit administrators?) was caught using chatGPT bots to flood the site with pro-admin comments....