I remember a time when Reddit was the answer to big brother controlling the information. Democratized ideololgy, where ideas would stand before the masses and be judged on merit alone.
But the hive mind is easily manipulated, and the profits must flow.
Karma isn’t the goal - clicks are. The more people (or bots) interact with the site, the more traffic is generated, and the less it looks as if reddit is dying. Spez is trying to forge engagement with/on reddit.
Even if a post gets half a million downvotes and dozens of reports, does that only mean that it generated more than half a million clicks.
(That’s also the reason most clickbait is such a huge heap of bullshit. An outrageously dumb/wrong statement right in the title and lots of bullshit in the article = people get angry, leave comments, argue, share the article with likeminded people to show them how dumb/wrong it is … and the author gets paid per click in ad revenue. The writers know they’re wrong, but a factually correct article doesn’t generate nearly as much traffic.)
It’s all “engagement-bait” from bot accounts.
It always was. Astronaut.meme
I remember a time when Reddit was the answer to big brother controlling the information. Democratized ideololgy, where ideas would stand before the masses and be judged on merit alone.
But the hive mind is easily manipulated, and the profits must flow.
Ah didn’t notice that
Can’t say I blame you. Its purpose is to blend in.
What’s their endgame here? These parts won’t even collect karma since they’re self posts.
Text posts get karma. They changed that a few years ago.
That rule about self posts not giving you karma was changed way back in 2016.
Karma isn’t the goal - clicks are. The more people (or bots) interact with the site, the more traffic is generated, and the less it looks as if reddit is dying. Spez is trying to forge engagement with/on reddit.
Even if a post gets half a million downvotes and dozens of reports, does that only mean that it generated more than half a million clicks.
(That’s also the reason most clickbait is such a huge heap of bullshit. An outrageously dumb/wrong statement right in the title and lots of bullshit in the article = people get angry, leave comments, argue, share the article with likeminded people to show them how dumb/wrong it is … and the author gets paid per click in ad revenue. The writers know they’re wrong, but a factually correct article doesn’t generate nearly as much traffic.)