People have been doing it for years. At one point, it amounted to a sizable percentage of Reddit’s posts and comments. Just seo spam to their own profile, a few subreddits, and sleep your 600+ accounts for 3 days.
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reabsorbthelight@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Wtf it literally never crossed my might to use a forum like this. So fucking dumb. It’s like everyone is scrambling for a couple percent points over the next
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
reabsorbthelight@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I knew most of it was spam. I just figured it was propaganda
slaacaa@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Line must go up, always & forever.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Its likely this is designed with a plan to push advertising or self-promotion.
Eg: step one is done - figure out how to both find threads early & get your content picked up as a good answer regularly and consistently. Step 2 - start inserting ‘first hand’ recommendations or even just mentions of products and services.
I’ve already seen webpages with the most esoteric or niche product/service recommendations (like some random Indian consultancy with 2 people listed in it, and no other significant web footprint) pop up in first page web results. Its another AI deathblow to the utility of search engines.