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Reddit Stock Jumps After Bigger Than Expected Jump in Users (www.wsj.com)
posted 2 years ago by DoctorDank 2 years ago by DoctorDank +31 / -0
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– DoctorDank [S] 59 points 2 years ago +59 / -0

How many of them are bots, you think?

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– Kalamander85 47 points 2 years ago +47 / -0

Yes

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– Devidose 43 points 2 years ago +43 / -0

Seeing as how it's an election year: all of them. They will sit and wait to be activated nearer the time and attempt to rely on a slightly older account age than "made on the day" as a means of credibility.

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– DoctorDank [S] 15 points 2 years ago +15 / -0

The article lists "daily active users," so I would say a lot of them are already activated bots, lol. Or Pajeet posting from Hyderabad for 5 cents a post.

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– MLGS 12 points 2 years ago +12 / -0

There's no cognitive difference between call center Indians and GPT-3 level bots.

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– AnotherSchwarzesMark 5 points 2 years ago +5 / -0

One might have better grammar, we got such wonders as show bobs from them.

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– Assassin47 25 points 2 years ago +25 / -0

All of them. Why would there be a jump in users? If you're on the internet you know about reddit and you're either already using it or not.

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– Careless_Ejaculator 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

I think they may be getting pajeets. A few indian subreddits have been cropping up, and more and more indians are coming online.

Reddit is 100% bots, pajeets, and trannies.

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– RoulerBleu 44 points 2 years ago +44 / -0

Reminder that Reddit misrepresented all its large sub's activity to mislead advertisers into believing their adds were shown to more people that in reality.

Except one sub. Reddit lied by fudging the data about The Donald to pretend it had less active users and engagement than reality. ( edit : see Dank correction ).

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– Assassin47 18 points 2 years ago +18 / -0

Imagine thinking a website where the head admin would literally sit there modifying the database to stealth edit users comments has any legitimate data at all. Anyone giving them money deserves what they get.

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– DoctorDank [S] 16 points 2 years ago +16 / -0

To be technically correct, they fudged the subscriber numbers that was shown on the sidebar, and gave a much larger number number to the advertisers. So they wanted denizens of the_Donald to think they were less numerous than they actually were.

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– RoulerBleu 4 points 2 years ago +4 / -0

Thank you.

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– deleted 10 points 2 years ago +10 / -0
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– undecidedmask2 4 points 2 years ago +4 / -0

The only way for Reddit to ever be profitable is if they just accepted their position as a pornography company, considering that's around 50% of their traffic.

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– when_we_win_remember 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

Advertisers discount all those views. They have metrics for how effective the campaigns are, such as click-through rate. And then they pay competitive rates for that advertising. It doesn't matter if there's 60% fake users because you just lower the per impression rate that much. And like I said they have some visibility into how many impressions are getting eaten by bots. Or at least how many are ignored, which is the same thing to them.

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– deleted 11 points 2 years ago +11 / -0
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– NatalieBiden 9 points 2 years ago +9 / -0

Reddit needs to be hit with alex jones size of fine

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– deleted 8 points 2 years ago +8 / -0
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– BoberFett 7 points 2 years ago +7 / -0

Reddit has been around forever Why would any new users join recently? As many others expect, I say this is all bullshit.

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– SR388-SAX 6 points 2 years ago +6 / -0

Short opportunity?

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– ShekelJa 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

did they jump off a bridge?

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– redneonglow 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

Reddit has become a ghost town since the banning of /r/The_Donald.

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– deleted 1 point 2 years ago +1 / -0

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