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I'm curious why you bother with up/down vote buttons on ads in subreddits when you just continue to show the damned things if I downvote the shitty clickbait ad?

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Because it makes ads look more like actual reddit posts. Like if ads are more "part of the subreddit" instead of being an additional separate entity.

How do you tell the difference though? I use an adblocker, so I don't think I've ever seen these reddit ads, but I'd like to know what to look out for, if I disable my adblocker.

https://imgur.com/1b3UTC4

Offcolour background, a little megaphone saying "promoted", all the way at the top of the subreddit, and offtopic (this ad was on /r/HFY)

Without context, that image makes it look a little more sneaky than it actually is. Here is an image of an add on the page.

https://i.imgur.com/KqDwjY9.jpg

Because any interaction shows engagement.

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