how come ? can you give some examples of how this works?
* /r/aww -> cat playing with a toy with your brand
* /r/HumansBeingBros -> a guy helping poor people by bringing free pizza and free soda to a shelter.
* /r/Fitness -> how about a gif of a clever workout then the main character drink a sip of your soda. After the effort the comfort.
* /r/DIY -> look what I achieve with 7919 cans!
My poor colleague was incredulous when I told him reddit was gamed. Dear summer child, it is not just the obvious product placement for Doritos. It is also entire subs that are heavily modded to the point of being useless. r/sanfrancisco is endless pix of the gg bridge, thanks mods! It also divides the discourse into red team blue team with red team bad blue team good. High karma users sell their handle so trolls and sock puppets can have a vernier of credibility. Like San Francisco fromwhere it originates reddit is a cesspool that if you practice active denial, selective ignorance, ignore cognitive dissonance and pretend like all the bounders, freaks, fairies, bohos, hippies, punks, transhumanists, burners, and hackers that came before that everything is beautiful man, its a great place that can still surprise and delight on occasion.
Shouldn't country subreddits be sacred ? Should'nt there be a due process to call out mod excesses, some kind of quasi legal means. Instead they continue their information warfare unabated banning anyone that goes against their viewpoints. They also actively browse people posting in other subreddits and ban them.
While I agree that there should ideally be a process to deal with obviously maliciously confusing community names, a country is an entity too big and diverse to have a single centrally-moderated conversation platform for anyway. Control of the exact country-name subbreddits could be offered to official governments, but is that in any way interesting? We already have country TLDs as official government communication platforms on the web.
I don't see why I shouldn't be able to unhide all modded posts if I choose to.
The abuses of mods in some subreddits if it were happening in real life would be subjects of class action lawsuits.
Probably the best form of advertising. Have people just insert your products in random stories.
“I remember back when I was a kid and mom would make a cake with Betty Crocker icing”
I’m automatically suspect of any post mentioning products. Probably happens on hacker news too. And instagram. And everywhere else. We have ad blockers, but now the ads will move into the content itself.
“I remember back when I was a kid and mom would make a cake with Duncan Hines icing”
Rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat
1. Users on that subreddit can be quite paranoid 2. You'll become paranoid yourself if you spend enough time on that subreddit.