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
I mean, it’s not for purely altruistic reasons…
Lead fucks people up and slowly turns them into rage addicted assholes.
We got enough of those these days, I’d like the amount to go down over the next couple decades. So I never skip a chance to talk about the dangers of lead exposure
The good news is it’s not something that really changes.
Just test your home once, it’s not like you need to constantly monitor it.
I boil mine because I like the way it tastes–it’s sweeter
That’s actually a really bad sign…
The most likely thing to make water taste sweet is lead, and heating up water with lead makes it even sweeter.
And that’s 100% a problem you need to look out for in America.
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
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.
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.
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”
Why are you talking about Vietnam?
Vietnam is the reason we support with money and not bodies…
I don’t think coins/gold ever really made money.
Reddit gave a shit ton out to mods to give to inflate the appearance people were buying them to give out. And when you’d receive gold, you got coins to give others gold.
It’s like a Ponzi scheme but without money…
I never paid a cent for gold, but had it at least 50% of the time on Reddit.
Because “funding other people’s wars” is better than waiting a couple years till it’s our war too…
Did you forget about WW2?
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