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Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats To Protesting Mods, As Ad Buyers Leave (www.techdirt.com)

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The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful…

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now go and pay attention to the age of the posts. I'll wait.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're posted about when you'd expect in hot?

nsfw

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lets just use your own screenshot for a second.

Do you think all the posts in it that are practically all posted at the same time (16-17 hours ago) is normal, organic user behavior to you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's just about the average amount of time posts take to hit 'hot'; it was similar in reddit too.

Pretty constant stream of posts in new:

nsfw

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hopefully the faking to them making it pays out I guess.