There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

roht ,

I basically quit Reddit cold turkey. Rather than watch the slow, sad decline of its communities by going along with Reddit management, I’d advocate them to make the transition to the Fediverse now rather than later. The /retrogaming/ community (I need to drop the /r/ for obvious reasons) did this and is doing quite well for itself on Lemmy and Mastodon.

resetreboot ,

If you could link to their lemmy so other retrogmaing lovers can sub and follow, that’d be amazing!

Hackerman_uwu ,

Not sure if there are any ex Redditors old enough to remember the Sydrah debacle?

In which a Reddit user and mod of several communities advertised on LinkedIn that they were ‘a social community manager who had pull in several online communities’ (“has pull” is a direct quote the rest is paraphrased) and that they could be paid to influence the narrative in these communities.

Someone doxxed them and leaked the LinkedIn profile and a vast swathe of the community cried out in horror and revulsion. Oh how the bacon narwhaled on that day!

She’s still a mod of 2xC and at least a few dozen other subs.

Looks like Reddit just legitimised her now ancient play really. It’ll be a website full of Sydrahs after this.

bloopinator ,

Everyone loves to joke about how moderators are “jannies” and “free labor” but let’s be honest, all the power mods that have control of dozens of subs are making money off it. Political/news subs have loads of value to groups with agendas, and non-political subs still have value to corporations that want to advertise their products.

The only thing Sydrah did that was unique was getting caught.

Paradox ,
@Paradox@lemdro.id avatar

>demand money from third party app developers
>give money to karmawhores

wut

Ludo ,

If you’re going to pay anyone maybe pay the mods? You’re just going to be creating even more work for them as they fend off karma farming bot swarms with no moderator tools.

postmateDumbass ,

So all those perma bans of high karma long time members for no reason was a money driven directive?

By suspending the accounts reddit just wiped a bunch of karma they wont pay for but still can use the content.

tictac2 ,

I had nearly 600k post karma on Reddit but I’m never going to post anything there again.

Mereo ,

The concept behind the program is straightforward. Redditors who receive substantial gold and karma from other community members can potentially convert these virtual rewards into real-world money that can be cashed out.

sigh, that’s desperation. This means that the discussion on Reddit will not be natural or organic, it will cease to be human. Redditors will be like dogs, where they shitpost and post comments that everyone agrees with so they can make money, basically doing what the master tells them in order to get their treat. Reddit as we know it will cease to exist.

youthinkyouknowme ,

Soon on YouTube “how to make money on reddit”, “top 10 comments that will get you 9999 upvotes”

Nobody ,

This!

Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!

We did it, Reddit!

HiDefMusic ,

Ding ding ding! We have a winner!

Marxine ,
@Marxine@lemmy.ml avatar

“Easy trick for TOP GOLD Reddit admins don’t want YOU to now!”

SCB ,

Worse, I don’t think it’s desperation. I think the senior leadership genuinely sees this as a good idea. That implies they view reddit no longer as a series of communities that organically develop and more as a social network that should pursue reach and “quality” content.

To me, that’s way worse than desperation. That’s like the exact opposite of what reddit was stated to be when I first joined.

MdRuckus ,

Reddit must be super nervous and losing a lot of traffic. Burn baby, burn!

bionicjoey ,

“Thus creating the self sustaining economy we’ve been looking for”

PipedLinkBot ,

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): piped.video/YAKOWcs8w54

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.

NightOwl ,

I love this bot. Of all the bots this one is by far the coolest.

Skray ,
@Skray@kbin.social avatar

And we thought bots and karma farming were bad before.

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