They launched without any community mod tools beyond "delete post" for their entire run. The site predictably got overrun as site admins had to bear all the weight.
We knew bots were part of the landscape, but we didn’t appreciate the scale, sophistication, or speed at which they’d find us.”
The company said it banned tens of thousands of accounts
Rookie mistake. The professional move is to officially recognize all those bot accounts actual users and value your company at its height for user engagement. Then either IPO with a quick cash out, or sell to Private Equity and walk away from the zombie company you've just created for it to die off in a year or two.
Yup. Banning a bot account just means another bot will take its place. Shadow ban the bots, count them as actual users, profit.
It got a lot of white supremacists very quickly, and nothing was done to rein them in
Yep, deleted account shortly after they started showing up
That’s the canary in the coalmine
The loser who boasted about raising hundreds of thousands of dollars that he donated to Brett Kavanaugh disgusted me
If I raised that sort of money, my local animal shelter would get every cent
Funny stuff. But Kevin Rose is a scammer, his last project was NFT pump and dump.
The internet is now populated, in meaningful part, by sophisticated AI agents and automated accounts.
Meanwhile, reddit be like:
The company said it banned tens of thousands of accounts, deployed internal tooling, and worked with external vendors, but it wasn’t enough.
They did all that and it still didn't work out? It is a headscratcher.
reddit barely could keep up witht he bots, although they developed more sophisticated means to block the lowest hang fruits.
Easy way to screen out the bots - just require ID verification /s
How did Digg not already have an app?
They did.
Tech related news and discussion. Link to anything, it doesn't need to be a news article.
Let's keep the politics and business side of things to a minimum.
No memes