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topps_chrome t1_iwuqnxn wrote

I love that this pops up the same morning the ads start airing. Reddit is a very organic and non astroturfed website.

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riegspsych325 t1_iwuwayf wrote

pay attention to how most of these accounts posting are no more than 2 years old yet they rack up thousands of karma and comment so little. OP does not seem to be a bot or paid poster, but it is a huge problem in r/movies.

There’s one user who has a 2 year old account but has over 7 million karma. When suspicions arise, he’ll occasionally say “oh, I just really love movies”. But he’s the one posting 90% of everything on the entertainment subs and yet he never ever comments more than a synopsis or article quote. Never gives an opinion, replies to a comment, doesn’t partake in discussions, nothing. Only time he does reply to someone is to clarify or add more news. How is that guy not doing that as a fucking job?

EDIT: grammar

EDIT 2: I honestly wouldn’t mind so much but I’ve seen other users post articles and such that get taken down right away but only for that one guy to post it himself

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dont_shoot_jr t1_iwuxhjk wrote

This is the job

Upvote if you’re browsing Reddit at work

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PetyrDayne OP t1_ix3di6g wrote

https://tenor.com/be4ND.gif

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riegspsych325 t1_ix3qyhp wrote

I know it seems so petty of me to complain, but it does cause some problems. I’ve seen users post trailers, articles, posters etc only for it to be taken down and reposted by that one guy. There are a few other people that have lots of karma and always post but they always engage with other users and partake in the discussion.

I’m not saying anyone that posts should comment, because what I really want to say is that the one guy is just astroturfing

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ytrewq007 t1_iwuvtbl wrote

I’ve been getting ads for it for a few weeks now

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oldcarfreddy t1_iwvbsri wrote

You're on a television subreddit where people regularly post about new and current shows, and you aren't aware that TV shows have marketing campaigns and press that market them?

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superiority t1_iwvmjjb wrote

The article was published just yesterday. Are you saying that people should have submitted it to Reddit before it was published, or are you saying that authentic Reddit users would be unlikely to post a recently published article on a popular website to a relevant subreddit unless they were getting paid?

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deaddonkey t1_iwwnozz wrote

Yes he’s saying he doubts an article like this would be posted organically. I mean I kinda believe it. I’ve never heard of this site and these types of descriptive/hype headlines strike me as insincere.

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bjorn2bwild t1_iwwvwps wrote

Paste is a fairly popular site. It's been around for a while and used to be pretty good for music news in the 2000s.

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deaddonkey t1_iwwnfbe wrote

I love posting and upvoting shill posts from pastemagazine.con man wdym?

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__dontpanic__ t1_ix6lufk wrote

Yeah, but they don't control the comments - that's still very much organic. If a show is shit, the comments section will let me know, no matter how much the corporates try to astroturf the sub.

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HouseAnt0 t1_iwvg5wh wrote

You get to use the site for free, someone has to pay for servers and workers. Kind of like when people here complain about pay walled news then immediately complain about journalists not getting paid properly. The money has to come from somewhere.

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