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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by Liru on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:52PM (#19088432)
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.
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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by 6cd6beb on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @02:25PM (#19088791)
They 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.
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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by nhooyr on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @12:14AM (#19092887)
It ensures batters cannot tell if their account has been shadow banned.
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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by JoeSmithson on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @02:50PM (#19089060)
What incident is this referring to? I can't find anything via a quick search...
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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by Liru on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @03:09PM (#19089257)
It didn't blow up like the comment-editing incident, but I was referring to https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/7a2mle/possible_...
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