This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
So let me get this straight. Some jerk off looking to advertise his site by spamming links on several subs was hoping to AstroTurf COUGH I mean organically post... And Reddit Ad Team saw that and figured they could milk him for some dollars? So this doucher takes to Xhitter to try to get sympathy?
Ahh capitalism at its finest.
wut
Unless the article is absolutely lying, it mentioned the subreddits wanted the posts and couldn't overcome the sitewide ban (i.e. manually approving the content). Your comment is a really huge stretch there.
He might not be morally good, but what Reddit is doing here is illegal in many places.
First mistake: Staying on Reddit. Fuck Spez.
Second mistake: Complaining about Reddit on X. Fuck Musk.
Let's just hope this user stays away from substack next.
Here’s my story on Medium about my journey from Reddit, to X, to Substack! Like and subscribe guys!
He posted this on xitter. It goes in the trash along with reddit.
I mean, if you want more than three people to see the post...
...you'll have to buy ad space.
How do I do that on Mastodon, Lemmy, Piefed,...?
^/s^
That's nothing. I was permabanned for inciting violence or whatever they claimed, which broke rule #1. My "violence" was calling AI stupid (more or less) wishing it'd go away. Ironically, the mod bot banned me.
My ~19 year old account was permabanned after three strikes that involved two upvotes of Luigi pictures and then— after seeing a vid of Trump falling asleep— saying he shouldn’t wake up.
Then my alt got a warning for “disparaging communities” after I said one of the two PDX subreddits started so they could talk shit about houseless people, which is a fact.
Three of those were flagged by AI, the last one— the warning— was a person flagging it and couldn’t be contested.
It’s gone to the dogs.
I'm jealous of all y'all who know why you got bans.
I've gotten warning and temp bans, but they never specify why. They never include the content. Just saying promoting this or that is very unclear, like how, when, where? Did I actually?
I always just ignore them and carry on on alts for a while.
Their shit is so stupid. But there's a lot of useful content on Reddit. I still hit up old house and DIY type groups, cause I own an old house, and specific tech groups because of the tech I use, but I don't miss the rest.
I pulled a 3-day ban for calling ICE racists. Must have really triggered one of the racist mods.
I am on a 7 day ban for the same sort of thing, pointing out how ICE targets brown people. "Inciting hate", how is pointing out hate crimes the same as inciting hate? Fight the power.
It’s strong “people who point out racism are the real racists” energy
Mine came from simply saying that a drone would probably take care of a Russian solder seen in a video on crutches heading toward the front lines in Ukraine. Literally just that. Not saying it with any joy or approval, just a statement of fact. Phrased pretty damn much like I said it in this comment here.
The bigger news here is that Reddit, as a policy, allows bot posting (organic posting) as long as you're buying ads from them.
C’mon, is it news? Isn’t that the reason we’re all here?
Once I got banned like a thousand times within the span of 5 minutes because I reported a pro-Trump post as child abuse. I assume it really triggered some admin.
I wonder if this admin was named maxwellhill.
Sound more like you learned the hard way what "abusing the system" mean.
Oh, no, I didn't give a shit, I burned through Reddit accounts like nobody's business. The fact that the admin was so triggered as to sit there, banning and unbanning me, just to spam me with notifications, was the greatest possible reward I could have ever asked for.
First thing I did on the new account was report the exact same post. Didn't get banned.
If you didn’t leave when the API pricing went up, everything is your fault.
"I got caught trying to advertise for free and they want me to pay for it like everyone else!"
I found out today that they have removed r/all from the mobile platforms.
The one unifying feed... Heaven for it folk experience consensus media or have a shared experience.
By slicing it all up they can tweak individual algorithms to push more jank than ever. No longer do they have to game the system to get AstroTurfed Ads on the front page.
Actually, didn't they used to call themselves the "front page of the internet"? How does that work if no one sees the same page?
I think most people unsubscribe from r/all anyway and subscribe to subs related to their favorite hobbies and games and work related info. Most of my frontpage is for video games I'm currently playing, programs I'm currently using and odd fun subs like moviemistakes or maybemaybemaybe. I wish I could do that here.
And that's all cool... But it is weird to take that choice away from users.
Much like here, a quick browse of all introduces me to a wider world with different concerns. It's how I find stuff.
And I'm pretty sure what you do is possible here... What are you having a problem with?
Fuck you u/spez.
I don't know who this guy is, but the fact that he is crying on twitter about being shadow-banned on reddit tells me I don't really give a fuck about him, his opinion, or his perceived slights against him.
I care if reddit is dishonestly enforcing rules to force people to buy ads. That's good for us actually. If only we had more enlightened instances with more functionality.
an ad spend
When you're off the used car lot, 'spend' is still only a verb, and the word you wanted here is maybe 'purchase' or 'deal'.
'The spend', 'the ask', and other cheese should stay back with the pre-owned Pontiacs.
Fuck Reddit
Owners of the means of production will use that leverage to exploit you, every time.
Organic posting = euphemism for spamming
If the support specifically says that you are a spammer, then you're a spammer.
I do not have empathy for spammers
Just one asshole fucking another with a double-headed dildo. That's all I see.
