How To Go Viral By Using Fake Reddit Likes

Re:How To Go Viral By Using Fake Reddit Likes by HearMeRoar on Monday July 10, 2017 @09:37PM (#14740986)

>How we hacked Reddit

Really? Hacked?

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Re:How To Go Viral By Using Fake Reddit Likes by xyzxyz998 on Monday July 10, 2017 @10:31PM (#14741206)

To be fair, this is probably the only time I've seen the term hacked used correctly. I no longer know whether I should use it in this sense or the "incorrect but used by almost everyone" sense.

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Re:How To Go Viral By Using Fake Reddit Likes by mkl on Monday July 10, 2017 @10:59PM (#14741290)

I don't think it's used correctly here. They didn't hack together any code, they didn't hack on some multipart kludge. All they did was break rules by buying votes.

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Re:How To Go Viral By Using Fake Reddit Likes by TheRealDunkirk on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @09:52AM (#14744136)

"Gamed" should be the word.

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Re:How To Go Viral By Using Fake Reddit Likes by microwavecamera on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @05:39PM (#14748325)

Haven't you heard? Marketers call marketing tricks "hacking" now. o_o

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