I was a digg power user then transitioned to reddit when that all went to shit and my intended grift of making money through selling digg visibility disappeared.

I've run dozens of subreddits and still do although incredibly lazily like 99% of legacy reddit mods that have been in their positions for way too long.

I started the use of subreddits as hashtags via spamming /r/hailcorporate in response to every shill post on the site.

I even got a job in the game industry as an internet janitor too and have worked with EA, Ubi, Paradox, Sega and others. I firmly believe in that title for any online moderation and community management, all we do is keep things clean for everyone to enjoy an online space and ego in online moderation is a serious problem.

Ask me anything

  • ponko [any]
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    4 years ago

    Whats are the most heinous examples of astroturfing you've seen on reddit? "Nuclear experts" in every sub after Fukushima? 2016 correct the record? How much funding do you think these efforts have?

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      I think it's probably Monsanto. There was multi-year period of time where unusual comments would show up in literally EVERY single thread with 10-20 accounts. Some of those accounts would also only ever show up on anything relevant to Monsanto.

      • ponko [any]
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        4 years ago

        Ah yeah I remember that. Damn that was a long time ago.

        • Awoo [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          It was insaaaaaaane how much of it there was. Utterly crazy. And people were STILL claiming we were nuts about it.

            • Awoo [she/her]
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              4 years ago

              These people were literally sat at a computer all day doing nothing but sockpuppet reddit.

              • ponko [any]
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                4 years ago

                Tbf that was at least 1/2 of r/cth during the primaries. We practically took over r/ politics for a while. DNC controlled subs like rwarren were too ban happy to turf.