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  • itsnotlupus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    To push back on that a bit, many Reddit “aged accounts” are used to push scams to the great unwashed masses.

    I’m not sure it’s morally okay to turn a blind eye from who’s buying those accounts or why.

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      1 year ago

      It is if its on the Reddit platform. The more dmaage done before their IPO, the better. Spiteful and petty? Absolutely. But because Steve Huffman is the target? Let it burn. Actually, everyone should help pour some fuel on it.

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        1 year ago

        That mirrors the tension many reddit mods struggled with recently… It’s difficult to push back against Reddit without also punishing its active users in some real way.

        The folks using Reddit are still real human beings. But I get that not everybody is going to draw the line in the same spot.

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          1 year ago

          Making it worse for the end users is the whole point. Protests don’t work effectively if they don’t cause major inconvenience to the people able to make the changes. And for Reddit admins, hemorrhaging users is a major inconvenience.

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            1 year ago

            I feel like it’s more like shooting a hostage to spite the one holding hostages.

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        1 year ago

        It could be anything that makes it worth paying money for the accounts in the first place.

        Unfortunately, looking from the outside, it’s difficult to tell if an account has been bought, hacked, or if the original owner just decided to become a scumbag out of nowhere.

        For example, have a look at https://www.reddit.com/user/fakerht, a 4 years old account that, just 30 minutes ago, decided to promote a scam site that attempts to steal crypto by luring them with the promise of an airdrop.