Fuck reddit and all the admins that attempt to run it.
Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot
Submitted 18 hours ago by Beep@lemmus.org to technology@lemmy.world
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THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 48 minutes ago
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
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.
hector@lemmy.today 40 minutes ago
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.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 48 minutes ago
Dude needs to go play in traffic.
tidderuuf@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
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.
daychilde@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
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.
tidderuuf@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Hardaker is the operator of Mountain Weekly News, and he regularly used to contribute to three or four subreddits
So I am going to stop right there and ignore any conceivably ingenious reply you may come up with to justify and spin what the dude is actually doing. Spend enough time on Reddit like the grownups around here and you’ll eventually understand.
x00z@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
He might not be morally good, but what Reddit is doing here is illegal in many places.
motruck@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
You mean a company that owns a platform is operating it only to make money? Shocking. You already were fooled once with the first reddit exodus. Now it is just shame on you for expecting things not to go this way.
comador@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
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.
wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 14 hours ago
Here’s my story on Medium about my journey from Reddit, to X, to Substack! Like and subscribe guys!
okcomputer@piefed.world 6 hours ago
I’m new to this, is substack not the place to be for writers?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 minutes ago
Oh boy…
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
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.
jdr@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
I wish they’d sunset this shit
bonenode@piefed.social 14 hours ago
Wtf is organic posting.
hector@lemmy.today 35 minutes ago
It’s a variation on a reddit as I understand it, an unusual sex move. Organic posting is where, well, you don’t want to know.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Writing spam posts like “I’m really satisfied using this website, totallynotanad.com” or “try using Company XYZ, their service is really good”
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 13 hours ago
REAL humans posting. anything that utilizes bots, AI isnt organic, but reddit often bans the real humans over AI posting.
bonenode@piefed.social 13 hours ago
daychilde@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Like you just did with your comment and OP did with their posting: non paid ad posting
bearboiblake@pawb.social 12 hours ago
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.
XLE@piefed.social 5 hours ago
I wonder if this admin was named maxwellhill.
Dremor@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Sound more like you learned the hard way what “abusing the system” mean.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 7 hours ago
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.
IratePirate@feddit.org 5 hours ago
He found out the hard way that abuse is only tolerated if you have passed a certain wealth bracket.
mrnobody@reddthat.com 14 hours ago
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.
hector@lemmy.today 28 minutes ago
I keep hearing stuff like this, makes me wonder if they are even honestly getting those moderations wrong, or if they are pretending to get it wrong to ban you for other reasons. My violations were often in bad faith for other reasons that I got violated for I believe. Did you get into any arguments with like Influence agents for a powerful group? Ie Israel but not limited to.
doug@lemmy.today 14 hours ago
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.
suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I pulled a 3-day ban yesterday for calling ICE racists. Must have really triggered one of the racist mods.
daychilde@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
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.
sturmblast@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Fuck Reddit
eleitl@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
What’s a Reddit?
hector@lemmy.today 37 minutes ago
I think it’s the name for one of those weird sex moves.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
The bigger news here is that Reddit, as a policy, allows bot posting (organic posting) as long as you’re buying ads from them.
wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours ago
C’mon, is it news? Isn’t that the reason we’re all here?
20dogs@feddit.uk 8 hours ago
I mean there’s gut feeling and then there’s real actual evidence.
aviationeast@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
He posted this on xitter. It goes in the trash along with reddit.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
I mean, if you want more than three people to see the post…
20dogs@feddit.uk 8 hours ago
You get yourself to BlueSky
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Fuck you u/spez.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 17 hours ago
“I got caught trying to advertise for free and they want me to pay for it like everyone else!”
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
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
fubarx@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Just one asshole fucking another with a double-headed dildo. That’s all I see.
minorkeys@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Owners of the means of production will use that leverage to exploit you, every time.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
The person in the email strikes me as a contradiction. On the one hand, they’re posting their pronouns presumably to indicate some sort of support for inclusivity? On the other hand, they’re actively strong-arming and bullying a person into paying for normal access…
I’m sure it’s fully lost on that person. It feels so discordant to me.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
It’s a form of rainbow capitalism.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 13 hours ago
REDDIT is most AI and propaganda posts and bot posting.
dandylion@lemmy.zip 25 minutes ago
there are still people on reddit? thats a bot hell