I don’t know what you have in mind but the founders originally used bots to generate activity to make the site look popular. Which begs the question. What was really the root reddit cultures. Was it the bots following human activity to bolster it. Or were the humans merely following what the founders programmed the bots to post.
One things for sure, reddit has always been a platform of questionable integrity.
They’re banning 10+ year accounts over trifling things and it’s got noticeably worse this year. The widespread practice of shadowbanning makes it clear that they see users as things devoid of any inherent value, and that unlike most corporations, they’re not concerned with trying to hide it.
I don’t know what you have in mind but the founders originally used bots to generate activity to make the site look popular. Which begs the question. What was really the root reddit cultures. Was it the bots following human activity to bolster it. Or were the humans merely following what the founders programmed the bots to post.
One things for sure, reddit has always been a platform of questionable integrity.
They’re banning 10+ year accounts over trifling things and it’s got noticeably worse this year. The widespread practice of shadowbanning makes it clear that they see users as things devoid of any inherent value, and that unlike most corporations, they’re not concerned with trying to hide it.