For 10 years I’ve been asked to write software to astroturf reddit.
So maybe it’s seen as good, but it isn’t.
And for anyone wondering, I declined. I didn’t want to and if they had they would have been flogged by redditors when they figured it out (which they would have).
Also from that era I built a tool that scraped user histories and built a network of which communities and interests Redditors had. Then you could drop in a user and it would pull their sex, interests, approx age, etc.
And all that was from public Reddit data before companies like Facebook and Google saw every hyperlink you ever clicked.
For 10 years I’ve been asked to write software to astroturf reddit.
So maybe it’s seen as good, but it isn’t.
And for anyone wondering, I declined. I didn’t want to and if they had they would have been flogged by redditors when they figured it out (which they would have).
Also from that era I built a tool that scraped user histories and built a network of which communities and interests Redditors had. Then you could drop in a user and it would pull their sex, interests, approx age, etc.
And all that was from public Reddit data before companies like Facebook and Google saw every hyperlink you ever clicked.