This astroturfing issue on Reddit is still relevant in 2025!
Reddit is a marketing platform. Manipulating users is it’s function and purpose.
has been for a decade.
100%. For example, never mention monsanto or GMOs on reddit because the shills will swarm… Probably wayyyy worse now.
My first permaban was years ago for calling out an astroturfing campaign and the power mods who were running it or getting a kickback to stay silent about it.
There are hundreds of stories like mine on the TheseFuckingAccounts subreddit
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It’s especially obvs now, but this was published in 2018!
The only reason I’m here is because since 2011, I’ve racked up so many minor infractions that I am now no longer able to make an account. I’m basically like a guy who got a life sentence for a bunch of speeding tickets.
We need Reddit reform NOW
so i can go back
You sound like an addict. I think it’s time to go cold turkey…
i have a super addictive personality, when i find something i like doing, i wanna keep doing it. probably cuz i don’t like doing most things
nah bro i’ll just switch to discord, it’s an even stronger high. cleaner too
How are you unable to make an account on Reddit now? I would imagine your IP address from the early 2010s would be different from what you have now.
not sure, some kind of admin black magic
yeah, don’t think that’s gonna happen dude
Fuck Reddit. Don’t go back. Let that platform die
not gonna lie i am REALLY fucking sick of it
i don’t miss it one bit, this place is a lot nicer. it’s so nice making posts that get past the filters
We need Reddit reform NOW
lol. they been “reforming” it since inception. this is the goal.