▲ 517 ▼ Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot (piunikaweb.com) submitted 8 months ago by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world 96 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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.
[–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 8 months ago (2 children) C’mon, is it news? Isn’t that the reason we’re all here? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 20dogs@feddit.uk 8 points 8 months ago (1 child) I mean there's gut feeling and then there's real actual evidence. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 20dogs@feddit.uk 8 points 8 months ago (1 child) I mean there's gut feeling and then there's real actual evidence. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 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 permalink fedilink source parent