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.
Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Beep@lemmus.org to technology@lemmy.world
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comador@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Here’s my story on Medium about my journey from Reddit, to X, to Substack! Like and subscribe guys!
okcomputer@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
I’m new to this, is substack not the place to be for writers?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Oh boy…
bonenode@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Wtf is organic posting.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Writing spam posts like “I’m really satisfied using this website, totallynotanad.com” or “try using Company XYZ, their service is really good”
willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
/s
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
REAL humans posting. anything that utilizes bots, AI isnt organic, but reddit often bans the real humans over AI posting.
bonenode@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
daychilde@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Like you just did with your comment and OP did with their posting: non paid ad posting
hector@lemmy.today 2 weeks 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.
socsa@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
It’s when you don’t have sex because you are posting on reddit?
socsa@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Posting which doesn’t use petroleum based fertilizer
aviationeast@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He posted this on xitter. It goes in the trash along with reddit.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I mean, if you want more than three people to see the post…
20dogs@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
You get yourself to BlueSky
aviationeast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Its 2026, there are only three types of people left on xitter. Pedophiles, white supremists and people from the isle of moro.
mrnobody@reddthat.com 3 weeks 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.
doug@lemmy.today 3 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
I pulled a 3-day ban yesterday for calling ICE racists. Must have really triggered one of the racist mods.
hector@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
You got violated for upvoting luigi? I said all sorts of shit with no action on that, although I did get a 2nd violation and abandoned that account and when I came back with a new account all luigi content was gone except for pics which my posts don’t seem to go through on somehow.
I got one for saying musk should be riding in his own spaceshit, for advocating violence, apparently it’s just presumed it will blow up. What else, for accurately stating a cultural difference with another country that lacks sewage and running water for half the population and has a problem with feces polluting the ground and water, India.
We can’t even talk about cultural differences, and problems in society, without getting violated for disparaging others apparently. God forbid we accurately recount a historical situation where some nationalist is embarrassed for the outcome.
daychilde@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
hector@lemmy.today 2 weeks 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.
willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
0if they are pretending to get it wrong to ban you for other reasons
Oh, this has to be a very common behavior.
Or making overly strict rules because you plan on selective enforgement from the get go.
mrnobody@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Probably me shitting on AI was frowned upon. It was a news article or something something to the tune of ‘data centers for AI are stealing jobs faster than know’ and I said once they’re built, its low maintenance bc all the automation. So AI data centers replace people with AI agents and then automate BACnet to maintain the building. Would be a shame if it caught fire and the building AI was compromised and let burn the regular AI…
I’m spitballing my answer, but apparently that was a call for someone to somehow set fire to a datacenter or something even though I never said those words. It was poking fun at the Anikin Skywalker meme “you destroyed the very thing you were meant to protect” kind of shit. Or better yet, when Task Manager freezes.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
C’mon, is it news? Isn’t that the reason we’re all here?
20dogs@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I mean there’s gut feeling and then there’s real actual evidence.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
I wonder if this admin was named maxwellhill.
Dremor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sound more like you learned the hard way what “abusing the system” mean.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
He found out the hard way that abuse is only tolerated if you have passed a certain wealth bracket.
Jumbie@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Ok but that’s fucking hilarious. Wish I’d thought of it first.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
“I got caught trying to advertise for free and they want me to pay for it like everyone else!”
adam_y@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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?
lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
adam_y@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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?
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fuck you u/spez.
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.
Horsey@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Niche communities don’t turn on a dime to a new platform. He’s on Twitter because his audience is on Twitter.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
I wish they’d sunset this shit
willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
It’s corporate speak, imo.
I hate it too. They also like to call everything “assets.” Not a “picture” or an “image” or a “decoration” or a million other descriptive words. It’s all “assets.” When the corporates talk like that they are emphasizing ownership and profitabiliy. “Put that money-making thing we own there.”
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It’s actually a proper term in current marketing parlance. You can find it in glossaries in AppsFlyer, Adjust, and any of dozens of other digital marketing applications.
Ad spend is the amount of money a marketing team spends on digital and traditional advertising campaigns.
In the OP this differentiates it from a fine or paid feature. They’re are literally requiring them to buy advertising to allow them to post in an open forum.
sturmblast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fuck Reddit
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Dude needs to go play in traffic.
so_pitted_wabam@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Reddit bad
iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lemmy good
87Six@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Can anyone tell me what the fuck an organic account and organic posting is? Is this the def?
Organic social media refers to unpaid content that individuals and brands share on social media to engage audiences without paid ads or direct selling.
dandylion@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
there are still people on reddit? thats a bot hell
0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Remember when users used to flood reddit subs to find support, real opinions, express dissatisfaction, criticize bad feature/products, and warn others?
Now, the people who complain get flooded by astroturfing bots run by marketing agencies to say they’re holding it wrong, not important enough, doing something wrong while praising corporation overtaking governments.
Now that Google has partnered with reddit, they get to have many searches sending troves of people there expecting solutions or like minded people or community support.
So, yea there are still people.
eleitl@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
What’s a Reddit?
hector@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I think it’s the name for one of those weird sex moves.
one_old_coder@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
It’s a clone of Digg which was a clone of forums, and it’s full of ads and bots. It’s the trashcan of the internet. I don’t know why people still lurk there.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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
webdoodle@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
At least they put it in writing. They suspended and deleted all of my 15 years of posts, comments and moderating without even a good by. Fuck Spez, and Fuck Reddit may they reap the whirlwind.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Just one asshole fucking another with a double-headed dildo. That’s all I see.
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
minorkeys@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Owners of the means of production will use that leverage to exploit you, every time.
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Fuck reddit and all the admins that attempt to run it.
fubarx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
motruck@lemmy.zip 2 weeks 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.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks 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.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
REDDIT is most AI and propaganda posts and bot posting.
tidderuuf@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
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 2 weeks ago
He might not be morally good, but what Reddit is doing here is illegal in many places.