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[–] 53 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Eventually their stock price will crater if the platform hollows out any more. Companies pay a lot of money for advertisements and they measure the effectiveness of the ads. Ad platforms (usually) spend a lot of money to ensure that impressions aren’t wasted on bot traffic.

If you shed your user base while amplifying bot accounts, there’s no reason for companies to bring their ad spend to you.

Once again MBA greed and short term thinking wrecks something that had value.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Not wrecked. Cashed out. It's intentional, and they're just making as much as they can get away with, before the well dries out.

    It's wrecked for the users, sure, but this is what capitalism is. Stealing and selling what others created, for profit, fucking them over.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago

    Bingo, they know what theyre doing, theyre enshittifying.

    Gotta squeeze all the blood out of the stone.

    They know theyre going down, theyre deciding to make as much money as possible while doing so.

    Who cares if that causes mass spread of mis and disinformation? That ain't illegal, and it is profitable.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (10 children)

    In the search bar type

    Author:(username)

    Shows you every post and comment they've made, including "hidden" ones, with more sort options than their actual profile.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    This worked for me for a little while, but then some update must have patched it up.

    Not long after, a redditor dropped the following link:

    https://rosint.dev/

    Any post or message containing this link is auto-banned immediately on reddit. Even though bot infestation has been a problem for a bit, I think a lot of actual redditors set their profiles to prevent A.I. scraping

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Thank you sir. Here is the post that got me permabanned: (thread: How do you think the Trump Presidency will end? r/AskReddit)

    [In response to another user's comment, BTW]

    At this point you should be openly antagonistic to any reddit mod who calls you out for threatening violence against these douchebag Nazis.

    You are protecting and enabling the villains when you ban us for saying these things BTW. Keep that in mind before you hit the "Ban User Button" on this comment. (Also this was not a direct threat to anyone, merely commentary, so you can REALLY stuff it.)

    I'm not attempting to brigade or anything, and yeah, this technically from Reddit, but it's a deleted post, (I deleted it) so kinda doesn't exist there anymore. This is more...a "sample for consideration."

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  • [–] 24 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    ITT: Reddit addicts talk about how shitty reddit is but they still need it for their very special reason.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I loved reddit. I used it every day, all day. I didn't need friends IRL, I was talking to the world on Reddit. I did the thoughtless one liner quips that make it all the way to the top comment. I wrote insightful contributions with source citations that users love. I was a great contribution. And they dumped me. I loved reddit and they broke up with me because I wouldn't switch to their god awful new app after using the same better app for 13 years of joy. I didn't dump them, they dumped me because they are fucking morons.

    I don't go back there. They dumped me and I got the message that I wasn't wanted. I am forever scorned. They ruined our relationship because they're idiots. I didn't want to leave. They wanted me to leave. Now I wish they were dead. I hope they die. I hate reddit. Fuck reddit in the ass to death times infinity.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 week ago (13 children)

    Pretty simple solution.

    Stop using reddit.

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    [–] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Being on Reddit is like being on Facebook. We have been warned.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    It's worse because the mods can be trolls.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago*

    One of the comic mods openly admitted to pinning inflammatory comments just to get push back so they could ban users that didn't agree with their inflammatory comments. The described it as "very common practice".

    So yeah. Trolls. It was among the reason I chose to ditch the hell site.

    They're also the type to claim it's literally impossible to be sexist towards men, racist towards white people, etc. Literally impossible to be sexist on the basis of sex, love it.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)
    > be me bored 4Channer
    > click on obvious bot account using ChatGPT
    > want to check post history for confirmation
    > realize this is fucking 4Chan... there's no such thing as history
    > wtf.jpg
    
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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago

    Real and heterosexual.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago

    There are still humans on Reddit?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    "accidentally"...

    People thinking that bots are real people increases engagement numbers.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    Haven't checked myself but a while back someone told me you can still find the posts and comments if you search for the user. So that basically just adds an extra step

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

    The irony is that me, a real person, gets banned and banned some more, for saying something pro-Republican back in 2012, while these bot accounts spray slop all over the site with immunity.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    It's ok, I've been perma-banned for stating the simple fact that Andrew Tate deserves to be beaten to death in a dark and hopeless Brazilian prison. So they've come full circle.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (3 children)

    to be fair, you should be banned from everywhere, where people have civil discussions. Once for promoting murder, obviously, and then again for not knowing the difference between opinion and fact.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    That sucks man. I got banned for "anti-Zionism". Reddit really has become a meaningless wasteland for anyone with political opinions.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    They treat anybody with an account that's less than 30 days old as if they're animals to be abused for sport. Someone should file a class action lawsuit over Shadow banning. You could post 50 messages before you start to even realize that nobody is seeing them.

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