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[–] 96 points 3 years ago (16 children)

Any traffic on Reddit or engagement with anything they’re doing is bad. Quit visiting r/place. All you’re doing is padding numbers for their IPO stats.

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  • [–] [S] 31 points 3 years ago (12 children)

    I think that getting "fuck u/spez" and ads for the competition all over it is a big win, personally. They are getting a bunch of negative press from this.

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    An investment firm executive will have zero clue about what the hell a spe

    An investment firm executive makes it their business to know everything there is to know about negative press (or anything else that could jeopardize their management of an IPO), which this campaign is generating huge amounts of...

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    What press are we talking about? For shareholders, it's all about people engaging with Reddit so they can use machine learning to target ads to people. r/place is an experiment in how to encourage that engagement to make more money for shareholders.

    The best way to influence the IPO is not to engage.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Now if you could set up a huge bot-net and make the whole thing an obscene picture it will make impact. But I doubt that’s legal and all so don’t do that. Staying off seems to work for me, but I need some filter to remove that site from links here. It’s not very interesting for me to know what happens there. If it was I’d be there

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