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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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  • [+] 36 points 3 years ago (5 children)
  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago*

    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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  • [–] 62 points 3 years ago (1 child)
  • [–] 34 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    Good luck to anyone doing it but the whole reason I'm on Lemmy is because I refuse to use reddit's garbage app. I'm not gonna start now.

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    [–] 25 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I’m going to buy this beer and pour it out in protest…

    I’m going to buy these books and burn them in protest…

    I’m going to log into Reddit and place a stern message on /r/place in protest…

    Do you see the pattern…

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago

    I think it might be time to move on.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago

    Hate-gagement is still engagement

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago

    But the whole point of coming here is I didn't want to use the website and give them engagement.

    I think part of the problem is that when everyone is pulling in different directions, the effect of people like me boycotting using Reddit entirely to try to make some kind of dent in their use statistics basically ends up doing nothing.

    If you're "defending" your banner, meaning refreshing and adding inputs on a regular basis, you're providing a ton more engagement, views, and clicks, as well as getting other Reddit users more entrenched in their defense of their stupid website, than any other possible activity you could do on that site. So thanks, I guess.

    The worst case scenario for r/place is a world where everyone just sits in their corner after populating it at the start. Zero stories, boring, people no longer want to engage. What you're doing? Dramatic gold.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    honestly can’t be bothered. Let reddit fester, the view is great from here

    edit: but also do what you want! ;)

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    I think it's understandable that some of the people who spent a lot of time on Reddit over the years want to leave a tiny message as a final goodbye, and this is a great opportunity to do so. Kind of neat really. :)

    I'd consider throwing in a pixel if I had a verified account on there.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    No. Reddit is dead to me.

    You continue to help boost user engagement metrics. Just what the IPO needs.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    Stop engaging in Reddit. It's time to move on.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    Remember when Reddit actually had variety in their site wide social "games"/experiments? Remember the button? Or the colors? Or headdit? Now it feels like r/place is their one trick pony and honestly it's a beaten horse at this point, in my opinion.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    Don’t go on Reddit

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (5 children)
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    [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Why would you seek validation from reddit to get away from reddit?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Meh. You do you, but I'm happy here and don't want to give Reddit any traffic.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    STOP. GOING. TO. REDDIT.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Wait, so it's r/place no longer a 24 hour thing? I thought it would have ended 2 days ago

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    'member that site b used to draw swastikas on? how about we make it a time limited fomo event to drive metrics? brilliant right?

    Yeah, I've never engaged with this shit and won't start now I'm not even on the site.

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