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>A PR person hired to promote ULA promoting ULA on reddit under 10 different pseudonyms: Completely unacceptable, this should probably be made outright illegal.
by throwaway_law 7y ago
>A PR person hired to promote ULA promoting ULA on reddit under 10 different pseudonyms: Completely unacceptable, this should probably be made outright illegal. The only purpose of using pseudonyms like this is to trick people into thinking you have support that you do not.
Isn't this how Reddit itself became a platform? I understand they had no traffic/users and the Reddit Platform was seeded with bots to post, comment, upvote, etc... This false illusion of a user base and community gave the platform the credibility it needed to gain real users.
- dbuder 7y agoIn the beginning there were no comments, after a lackluster start, they seeded the site with interesting links to attract people who would like those links and themselves provide more. They did not engage in opinion shaping for a third party for financial gain.