Nothing you see on reddit is “organic”!

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[–] 26 points 1 year ago (14 children)

How much to sell an account with a solid 10+y activity and 500k karma?

Asking for a friend

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I’ll give you $4.50 for it.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I’ll throw in two dick pictures and in one of them I’ll put a tiny knitted beanie in it.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    They sell accounts for 4 bucks a pop. So apparently almost nothing.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    You 10 year old account might be a bit more valuable, but you have to understand that making bot accounts that post legitimate looking content nowadays is trivial.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    It do be like that. Last time I was scrolling I'd see the most obvious LLM generated threads and wonder who'd respond to this trash. Well it's other bots with your occasional oblivious human in-between.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    I really think that Reddit is completely inflating upvotes on posts. A post can have 50,000 upvotes, but there's only like three comments that are really big.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh yeah, this has been going on for more than a decade. 4 minute old post with 3000 up votes, zero comments.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I mean some of thst was organic, and something pushed for at the begining of that phase. used to be a common refrain, 'don't like what you see on the front page, search by new and change that' I used to spend like 20-30 mins every morning doing just that, sorting all:new and just up/down voting- so when I came back later there was more interesting threads with a comment section to engage in

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Changing from the original upvote scheme, where the absolute peak was Obama with like 10 or 12k, to now, where we see upvote in the six figures, was a huge mistake over there, really watered everything down. One of many mistakes along the way.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Most top voted/awarded or near top voted comments you see on the larger subs (and even some of the smaller niche subs now) are from bot controlled accounts. Humans that try to alert others that it's a bot comment often get banned for doing so. Happened to me countless times. It's really bad in r/politics in particular.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Being real, any vote-centric platform is extremely susceptible to manipulation, including this one.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Any alternative good formats?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I haven't seen it talked about here but there was a update a while ago to hide your entire Post and Comment history on Reddit.

    They might as well do away with user names at a certain point and use a randomised UID every posts since there little to no credibility attach to accounts now.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    All to sell OnlyFans subscriptions.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Huh, maybe I should sell my account.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Seriously what’s going on with the lips and fingers here.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    The whole website had to be vibe coded. I can’t even click the buy now button. Plus they’ve only sold 400 accounts? What the heck? And only 50k upvotes? I remember when I saw l upvotes in the 10k normally on the front page.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    If you want to see bots on reddit google "best ai chatbot reddit" or "best ai image generator reddit" or some variation, every ai thread is hella bots and fake upvotes and alll of their posts are ads pretending to be comments for the same few services

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    After the last election Reddit purged via permanent ban most of the humor and open minded convo. You get banned for joining subreddits.

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