Re:How Reddit plans to make money through advertising
by patmcguire on Friday July 06, 2018 @11:35AM
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Have they started shoving out the less savory subreddits? This may be the alternative to that - the brands that advertise don't want their stuff showing up in the wrong places, and you have to be able to say to them no, that's not true... it's either that or do what Tumblr did and aggressively marginalize anything not ad-friendly.
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Re:How Reddit plans to make money through advertising
by gunnyguy121 on Friday July 06, 2018 @03:14PM
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Yes they have. They've banned subs that could've been used to do illegal things. Subs like gundeals (for users to buy guns between eachother ) or alcoholtrading (same thing but for alcohol). I don't remember the exact names, but there were dozens of similar subs that were all banned.
Re:How Reddit plans to make money through advertising
by MrMember on Friday July 06, 2018 @07:25PM
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Gundeals wasn't for buying and selling firearms between private parties. It was for posting links to deals from retailers and FFLs.
Re:How Reddit plans to make money through advertising
by gowld on Friday July 06, 2018 @07:44PM
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They have shoved out the most overtly committed hate and crime subreddits, but they have been promoting only slightly-less savory subreddits to replace them.
The default front page was changed (a few years ago by now) to allow any subreddit to upvote-brigade to the frontpage, leading to flooding by trash subreddits like /r/CringeAnarchy (anti-transgender bullying) and /r/ImGoingToHellForThis (racist jokes) and many flavors of redundant mindless anti-Trump fake-news/clickbait-title subreddits (including /r/esist, /r/politicalhumor, and the ironically named /r/AgainstTrumpSpam which is actually "Against-Trump Spam". )