Reddit's Advice On Cheap Marketing

Re:Reddit's Advice On Cheap Marketing by danteembermage on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @12:03PM (#20540)

I can't help being curious; aren't there algorithms that itentify the likelihood of a sample of text being from a given writer based differences in writing style. If so we have plenty of writing guaranteed to be from Alexis and maybe we could identify which accounts were his.

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Re:Reddit's Advice On Cheap Marketing by kn0thing on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @08:25PM (#20630)

We didn't have commenting back then, so these were all link submissions. We basically stopped using these accounts after that first month or so -- once we started getting traffic.

For us, there didn't appear to be a major ethical dilemma. We used these accounts simply so that new users would see a front page of links instead of a blank website (or one with only submissions from 'kn0thing' and 'spez'). For a site like reddit, it seemed to be a key part of showing new users how the site worked. Once we got traffic (from places like YC and PG) we stopped needing these accounts and thus stopped using them.

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Re:Reddit's Advice On Cheap Marketing by ntoshev on Wednesday May 09, 2007 @06:22AM (#20734)

Without writing comments it is probably Ok for me as well. Voting is still somewhat about faking other people's opinions, but there is obviously a large grey area here.

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