• EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website
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    11 months ago

    I probably shouldn’t say this, but 10 years ago I worked for a company and my boss and I discussed and prototyped a bot to shill for our clients on reddit automatically, including finding optimal posting times by karma and using their search to find best subreddits to post in.

    We didn’t do it because if reditors found out and got mad our clients would dump us.

    Around that time /r/Ineedit and a bunch of other shill subs came out that were just totally AstroTurf.

    Bots have been on reddit for a long long time.