A tale of two cultures (2010)

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73 pointsjgrahamc4 comments

Interesting anecdote. I wonder how the current reddit admins would handle something like this.

I don't think anyone would notice or you would get shadow banned before it got to this. If they did it would become a meme for a day or two. There are entire subs that are (likely) just malware reporting home. The new rules seem to be more about preventing abuse of other redditors rather than preventing abuse of the site itself.

Do you have any examples on hand of subreddits like this?

http://www.reddit.com/r/A858DE45F56D9BC9

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/reddit-powered-botne...

I don't know if this one is specifically but there are other subs like this one, some of which might be used for purposes other than malware but as you can see with the ars article it certainly has been done.

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