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Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats To Protesting Mods, As Ad Buyers Leave (www.techdirt.com)
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The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful…

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Signed up an account and took a look around.

There's some NSFW content now but it's not all that different from what I described. Every community I look at is lucky to have 5 posts and many of them have all been created recently.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't have a horse in this race, but have you seen any of Reddit's NSFW subs? Most posts are by bots.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Bots and by people trying to slyly advertise their OF accounts for sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Every oak tree was once an acorn

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What...? The main comms have hundreds of posts and thousands of subscribers already despite the instance being created just over 2 weeks ago

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Now go and pay attention to the age of the posts. I'll wait.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They're posted about when you'd expect in hot?

nsfw

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Lets just use your own screenshot for a second.

Do you think all the posts in it that are practically all posted at the same time (16-17 hours ago) is normal, organic user behavior to you?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's just about the average amount of time posts take to hit 'hot'; it was similar in reddit too.

Pretty constant stream of posts in new:

nsfw

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Hopefully the faking to them making it pays out I guess.