A Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp by Becoming a Reddit Moderator

Re:A Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp by Becoming a Red... by Montymio on Thursday October 09, 2025 @01:32AM (#45523885)

a judge would def consider the extreme nature that’s occurred here. the number of posts is astounding, and the SEO damage could be monetarily accounted for.

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Re:A Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp by Becoming a Red... by michaelnovati on Thursday October 09, 2025 @03:49AM (#45524769)

FWIW those posts that show up in search are not my posts and I don't have control over that.

I don't "post" that much about Codesmith. I comment a lot about them.

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Re:A Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp by Becoming a Red... by muppetman on Thursday October 09, 2025 @04:06AM (#45524880)

A comment about them is still a post about them. This comment I'm writing, for example, is _also_ a post about what an unethical person you are and how your inability to understand or apologise for your behaviour says EVERYTHING we need to know about you. Or would you say I didn't post what an unethical person you are, I only commented about it?

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Re:A Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp by Becoming a Red... by stuaxo on Thursday October 09, 2025 @06:44AM (#45525853)

Semantics.

Question still stands, why are you writing (posting or commenting) this almost every day.

I can't imagine being so obsessed by something for that long that I comment on it almost every day.

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Re:A Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp by Becoming a Red... by jibal on Thursday October 09, 2025 @09:04AM (#45527134)

> I don't have control over that.

You're a moderator.

It's hard to assume good faith about anything you say.

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Re:A Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp by Becoming a Red... by Hamuko on Thursday October 09, 2025 @03:40PM (#45532141)

Do you not have direct control over what posts stay on the subreddit?

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