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Also, when they created comments and manipulated their timestamps to make it seem like they were created far earlier than they actually were, for advertising pu
by Liru 8y ago
Also, when they created comments and manipulated their timestamps to make it seem like they were created far earlier than they actually were, for advertising purposes.
- 6cd6beb 8y agoThey also obfuscate the real upvote/downvote numbers, purportedly to stop vote manipulation but I don't really see how it does anything but provide a mask of plausible deniability for editing the up/down figures for advertisements, subversive posts, etc.
- nhooyr 8y agoIt ensures batters cannot tell if their account has been shadow banned.
- JoeSmithson 8y agoWhat incident is this referring to? I can't find anything via a quick search...
- Liru 8y agoIt didn't blow up like the comment-editing incident, but I was referring to https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/7a2mle/possible_reddit_database_corruption/ https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/7a2mle/possible_...