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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by urda on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @03:06PM (#19089230)
Blocking /u/GallowBoob did nothing but improve my reddit experience.
Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by therealdrag0 on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @03:39PM (#19089579)
I've seen this comment more recently. I just thought he was a notorious reposter. What specifically is bad about him? (I often don't mind reposts when it's a first time for me..)
Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by e1ven on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @03:41PM (#19089601)
There are allegations that he's paid to post things on behalf of companies.

One such complaint is https://old.reddit.com/r/HailCorporate/comments/amg6kr/netfl...

Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by asdff on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @04:55PM (#19090289)
'He' is probably a small team of people using that account to repost paid content. There are dozens of massive accounts like this, I wish I had a comprehensive list to filter them all without going through user history one by one.
Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by rootusrootus on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @06:07PM (#19091019)
What is the point of aggregating so much traffic into a single account when it is not really a single person? Too easy to notice, too easy to block, why wouldn't someone paying to have content posted use many different accounts?
Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by trustmath on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @07:55PM (#19091695)
The account eventually gains some level of recognition - while you have vocal haters, you also have people that upvote their content (likely based on the username) to the frontpage. Most of what gallowboob posts is garbage and I guarantee you that if it was coming from accounts with less karma or notariety it wouldn't reach the front-page. You have to consider that some of the people upvoting are people commenting on the threads.
Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by Sendotsh on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @09:48PM (#19092271)
Something like a blocklist in uBlock Origin that blocks reddit power users.

Technically you could say that Gallowboob (and similar) posts ARE ads, and warrant blocking.

Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by dimensi0nal on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @12:34PM (#19097409)
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