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Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot (piunikaweb.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Mike Hardaker, who has maintained a Reddit account for 20 years, has been shadow-banned on Reddit. He has posted an update on X, stating that Reddit requires an ad spend to restore organic posting. This demand was given to him in writing.

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[–] 42 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The bigger news here is that Reddit, as a policy, allows bot posting (organic posting) as long as you're buying ads from them.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    C’mon, is it news? Isn’t that the reason we’re all here?

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I mean there's gut feeling and then there's real actual evidence.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    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 corrosion.

    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

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