There’s a shit ton of upvote bots and subs had free gold to give out all the time.
Admins like it because it looks good to advertisers and idiots think buying gold is normalized
Mods like it because it boosts sub visibility and got more subscribers
And some users chase karma so theyre onboard too.
There wasn’t much authentic about reddit
Yeah, wasn’t the first time, won’t be the last.
Rich people always assume they know better than the plebs.
It’s hows they justify treating everyone else like shit.
It’s the result of Prosperity Jesus.
They believe they’re wealthy because they have natural talent. It ignores lots of people are more talented, and never got the same opportunities to be successful.
In a real apocalyptic disaster, they’d be the ones real leaders sentence to death (either overt or shunning them from the group) to set an example for the rest of the group.
Yep.
The first thing they taught us in my graduate level statistics class was:
Anyone can make a statistic that backs up their bias. You’re here to learn how to accurately represent a situation with statistics, and be able to point out when others are misusing statistics
That’s the hard part
Even if they do, every article about Twitter comes with:
Twitter responded to inquiries with the poop emoji, as they do every time.
This is worse, because reddit is saying if anything was wrong, they would have responded. So it looks like reddit just agrees with anything that doesn’t get a response.
How funny would it be if it leads to a shit show where actual journalists start demanding their fair share of advertising generated off their articles?
Reddit can beat mods because of money, but these giant media conglomerates both have money and are hurting their own advertising numbers because 99% of redditors never read the article. They have motivation and opportunity to get legal
It’s gaming an algorithm.
Big deals like this aren’t made off one person’s decision, there’s all these metrics that are supposed to show the health of a company. But like anything, if you know the metrics you can just focus on that even if it’s the literal worst thing to do. It pumps the metrics.
They’re not trying to keep reddit alive forever, they want to juice the metrics so it’s worth the absolute most on IPO day. It’s all they care about.
They navigated by getting text messages from the ship…
That’s fucking insane when you’re going miles under the sea
Also, there’s no way to open it from the inside, they’re bolted in.
So even if they surfaced, they’ll still run out of air if they’re not found soon.
I once got a bot reply that was word for word a comment I had made somewhere else in the same thread…
Like, people always joked that everyone was a bot, but I think it was a lot more than anyone thought.
Yep, nsfw means no ads.
Also set it so a mod has to approve every post before it shows.
That way the sub is technically up and they can’t take it or make money off it.
Twitter will abide by the law but will not go further, Musk said during the interview. He claimed hate speech had decreased by 30 percent since he took over, even as Lapix presented him with statistics saying the opposite — including a study by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue exposing a 105 percent increase in antisemitic posts.
Pressed by the interviewer, the billionaire, a self-proclaimed freedom of expression absolutist, said the definition of hate speech shouldn’t be too broad or it could lead to censorship. Shown tweets rejoicing about the migrant boat disaster off Greece last week, Musk conceded they were “distasteful” but should remain online as long as they’re not illegal.
His definition of hate speech is just shit he disagrees with.
He agrees with anti-lgtbq and antisemitism, so to him, that’s not hate speech
Because the building was an asset during the sale…
On paper it was “smart” to have it there because it was a tangible asset. Long term it was a waste of money, but canceling would have been worse before the sale because it would have been an immediate loss affecting the price.
Just kicking the can down the road
Also, people like him care about the high score.
Losing 50% of his wealth wouldn’t change his lifestyle. But it would destroy his ego and make him keep making rasher decisions until it’s all gone.
He’ll keep taking risks he doesn’t need to, and since he’s leveraging against other holdings, it becomes a house of cards situation real quick.
There was escrow fail-safes.
If they didn’t pay, there was funds sitting there to avoid downtime.
Took a while to burn through them, then they never got replenished.
“unintentional landing”
One time I made a main level comment, then replied to one of the most upvote comments in the same thread.
Seconds later a bit replied to me with my first reply, except for some reason it cut off the end. I don’t know if the bot ran out of characters because it was a cheap bot, or if it was an attempt to avoid automated detection.
Bots were a huge problem long before AI started trying to have conversations.
We all joked about it, but a lot of the accounts were really fake, and they usually got sold to advertisers after amassing enough karma and post history to look authentic