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Mike Hardaker, who has maintained a Reddit account for 20 years, has been shadow-banned on Reddit. He has posted an update on X, stating that Reddit requires an ad spend to restore organic posting. This demand was given to him in writing.

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[–] bonenode@piefed.social 11 points 1 hour ago (4 children)
[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 points 21 minutes ago

Writing spam posts like "I'm really satisfied using this website, totallynotanad.com" or "try using Company XYZ, their service is really good"

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 37 minutes ago* (last edited 37 minutes ago)

REAL humans posting. anything that utilizes bots, AI isnt organic, but reddit often bans the real humans over AI posting.

as you know reddit bans people if it looks for patterns thats repeating itself.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Like you just did with your comment and OP did with their posting: non paid ad posting

[–] darklamer@feddit.org 1 points 28 minutes ago (1 children)

A posting made by an organic life form, typically a human.

[–] MoonRaven@feddit.nl 2 points 25 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 2 points 5 minutes ago

On the internet no one knows youre a dog.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 38 minutes ago

REDDIT is most AI and propaganda posts and bot posting.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 points 23 minutes ago

Organic posting = euphemism for spamming

If the support specifically says that you are a spammer, then you're a spammer.

I do not have empathy for spammers

[–] mrnobody@reddthat.com 11 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

That's nothing. I was permabanned for inciting violence or whatever they claimed, which broke rule #1. My "violence" was calling AI stupid (more or less) wishing it'd go away. Ironically, the mod bot banned me.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Mine came from simply saying that a drone would probably take care of a Russian solder seen in a video on crutches heading toward the front lines in Ukraine. Literally just that. Not saying it with any joy or approval, just a statement of fact. Phrased pretty damn much like I said it in this comment here.

[–] doug@lemmy.today 2 points 1 hour ago

My ~19 year old account was permabanned after three strikes that involved two upvotes of Luigi pictures and then— after seeing a vid of Trump falling asleep— saying he shouldn’t wake up.

Then my alt got a warning for “disparaging communities” after I said one of the two PDX subreddits started so they could talk shit about houseless people, which is a fact.

Three of those were flagged by AI, the last one— the warning— was a person flagging it and couldn’t be contested.

It’s gone to the dogs.

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago
[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 36 minutes ago

The person in the email strikes me as a contradiction. On the one hand, they're posting their pronouns presumably to indicate some sort of support for inclusivity? On the other hand, they're actively strong-arming and bullying a person into paying for normal access...

I'm sure it's fully lost on that person. It feels so discordant to me.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 13 points 2 hours ago

The bigger news here is that Reddit, as a policy, allows bot posting (organic posting) as long as you're buying ads from them.

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 85 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

So let me get this straight. Some jerk off looking to advertise his site by spamming links on several subs was hoping to AstroTurf COUGH I mean organically post... And Reddit Ad Team saw that and figured they could milk him for some dollars? So this doucher takes to Xhitter to try to get sympathy?

Ahh capitalism at its finest.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

wut

Unless the article is absolutely lying, it mentioned the subreddits wanted the posts and couldn't overcome the sitewide ban (i.e. manually approving the content). Your comment is a really huge stretch there.

[–] comador@lemmy.world 63 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

First mistake: Staying on Reddit. Fuck Spez.

Second mistake: Complaining about Reddit on X. Fuck Musk.

Let's just hope this user stays away from substack next.

[–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 hour ago

Here’s my story on Medium about my journey from Reddit, to X, to Substack! Like and subscribe guys!

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 22 points 4 hours ago

"I got caught trying to advertise for free and they want me to pay for it like everyone else!"

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 24 points 4 hours ago

If you didn’t leave when the API pricing went up, everything is your fault.

[–] aviationeast@lemmy.world 35 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

He posted this on xitter. It goes in the trash along with reddit.

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, if you want more than three people to see the post...

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

...you'll have to buy ad space. 

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 31 minutes ago

Organically.

[–] elvith@feddit.org 2 points 1 hour ago

How do I do that on Mastodon, Lemmy, Piefed,...?

^/s^

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 hours ago
[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

Just one asshole fucking another with a double-headed dildo. That's all I see.

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago

Owners of the means of production will use that leverage to exploit you, every time.