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Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats To Protesting Mods, As Ad Buyers Leave (www.techdirt.com)

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The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful…

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[-] mo_ztt@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Holy smokes -- I think you're right. I've definitely done that. That would explain this mystifying thing I saw in ad traffic from Facebook and reddit specifically, where 90+% of people stay for literally just a few seconds. If it's pretty much all accidental clicks and then people hitting "back" right away (which is exactly what I do when I do that), then that makes it make perfect sense.

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