• Th4tGuyII@kbin.social
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    6 months ago

    It’s gross, but also inevitable. If there’s an untapped niche to make money from, somebody’s going to try it – plus if they want to waste their money on generating accounts only to have them be banned, then so be it.

    Makes me kinda thankful that this community is smaller and less likely to be targeted by this sort of crap.

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      6 months ago

      What’s funny is I think it would be profitable for maybe, like, a year, before everyone starts doing it and then even normal people stop trusting reddit comments.

      It’s like pissing in a pool to sell people soap. What’s the plan once people stop using the pool?

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        6 months ago

        Buy a new pool and piss in again to sell new soaps.

        By the time that the cow is bled dry, someone is stuck holding the bag while some people made out like bandits.

        That is the stock market for you. Create no value, just wealth transfer.

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          6 months ago

          Create no value, just wealth transfer.

          In this case it’s creating a kind of anti-value - harm, I guess.

          Also I bow to your superior and brazen use of mixed metaphors. You got double what I did. “Bleeding” a cow dry? It adds impact over the usual “milking” even!

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            6 months ago

            Milking assume that you don’t kill the cow, which isn’t the case here.

            Some people are specialized at being hired at startups to prop up the startup to be sold and make a quick buck.

            Then they move on to the next startup, wash rinse and repeat. It tells a lot about the state of innovation.

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      6 months ago

      Just wait, in a near future there will be floods of bots quelling and stoking tempers to control opinions online, and in the real world.

      We already get some of this, but the scale is going to become many times worse.