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Re:Reddit Is Being Manipulated by Professional Shills [video] by xatan_dank on Sunday March 19, 2017 @03:59PM (#13909283)
I don't know if a shill-free alternative to Reddit could ever exist- I tend to think the openness and scale of Reddit (which is the whole point of it) is what allows shilling to occur. It really bums me out.
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Re:Reddit Is Being Manipulated by Professional Shills [video] by unethical_ban on Sunday March 19, 2017 @07:22PM (#13910422)
The site itself would have to be attempting to detect and flag networks of users, and take some kind of action.
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Re:Reddit Is Being Manipulated by Professional Shills [video] by xatan_dank on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @04:16PM (#13925816)
Sure, but I think that is actually a very difficult problem: how do we determine whether a comment is being sincere or not? Furthermore, assuming we had a foolproof method to do this, would the site have enough funds to use it routinely and ethically? I think this is the problem we're seeing now with a large number of tech companies.
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