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Reddit's Aggressive User Bans, Superficial Engagement and Monetization at any Cost (znetwork.org)
submitted 4 days ago by [M] to c/watchredditdie@sh.itjust.works
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53085066

This article looks at Reddit as a "comment economy." Beneath the rhetoric of community and information sharing, the platform's economic incentives favor conformity, reaction, endless engagement, and compulsive commenting over independent thought, meaningful discourse, and the exchange of knowledge.

Reddit’s revenue ultimately depends upon the creation of, extended attention to and the scrolling through of massive amounts of comments. This produces advertising opportunities, data value, repeat visits and valuable user engagement metrics.

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[–] 6 points 4 days ago

"One account had approximately 200,000 comment karma and only a few hundred post karma. This is the person Reddit wants to keep. This type of guy (the most aggressive users still seem to be guys) will not get his account banned."

Bullshit, they banned my account and it was a higher comment karma number than this. The bans made no sense. On top of that they are using pixel (or something similar) so I made a new account it was insta-banned. I said "fuck it" and havent been back even as an offline user.

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