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  • This has been true 10 years ago but now I’d actually think Reddit is significantly less trustworthy on average.

    The astroturfing is insane. Literally every company I contract with has a #reddit slack channel where they orchestrate some form of astroturfing. Also most of software related subreddits are 100% astroturfed by admins who get kickbacks from promoting some SaaS or burying stories.

    Basically any subreddit with external contact (discord, email etc) is open for “cooperation”.

    This is not even covering major propaganda ops by troll networks, just commercial astroturfing. There’s current ongoing story that Ghislane Maxwell - yes that one - was a major mod on r/worldnews. Isn’t that just crazy?








  • Wallhack is an obvious one or anything that reads client and modifies the display.

    Wallhack could be discovered through machine learning but very difficult I’d imagine. Other simpler rendering hacks like skin swap would be probably the hardest thing to detect server side as there’s no trace.

    I think thats a fair ground though. Clearly client side anti cheat simply doesn’t work and if someone wants to put hats on their characters to headshot them easier then let them be the losers they are.