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dsister on 31 March 2011
Slimebeast said:

What is Reddit exactly and how can it have such a big community of members?


It's a poor man's version of Digg 



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A Bad Clown on 31 March 2011

Greatest one:

 

Mithel  0 points1 point 16 hours ago[-]

You can tell they're legit because of all the z's.



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twesterm on 31 March 2011
matt247 said:

VGChartz blog gamrFeed said: “A few months ago we started working with a social networking specialist who was well-versed in Digg, Twitter, Facebook, and of course, Reddit. He knew how to use them well and increase our visibility in these communities. We eventually brought him on as a freelance Social Networking expert.


Social network expert my ass, it was either yesterday or the day before my entire news feed was spammed with VGChartz stories on Facebook so unfollowed it.  That crap isn't cool.



 

superchunk on 31 March 2011

pffft. Who cares. Every company out there has people to rank up their info... and who the hell even pays attention to Reddit? Jesus, I don't even pay attention to any of those ranking sites anymore. FB I like, but I also removed VGC from my newsfeed as well as any other company I 'liked' because I just don't need the rss-like push.



cory.ok on 31 March 2011
Kantor said:

I can say, in all honesty, we had no idea how severe this whole thing had become. All we did wrong was hire a social media expert which, contrary to popular opinion on Reddit, is not the same as a spammer.


if not a spammer how would you describe a 'social media expert' (lol)?

sounds like you just had a program running to scan vgc for new stories, post them on different media sites, then rate up where necessary

...or did your 'social media expert' (lol) not know how to program and did it all by hand?



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radiantshadow92 on 31 March 2011

I don't understand, somone please dumb it down for me lol



cory.ok on 31 March 2011
radiantshadow92 said:

I don't understand, somone please dumb it down for me lol


vgc hired someone to spam their content on other sites so they could get more traffic



radiantshadow92 on 31 March 2011
cory.ok said:
radiantshadow92 said:

I don't understand, somone please dumb it down for me lol


vgc hired someone to spam their content on other sites so they could get more traffic

ouch.......



twesterm on 31 March 2011
radiantshadow92 said:
cory.ok said:
radiantshadow92 said:

I don't understand, somone please dumb it down for me lol


vgc hired someone to spam their content on other sites so they could get more traffic

ouch.......

lol every site does it, it's just this guy was stupid about it.

You could easily write a script that does it over a gradual perdio of time instead of doing it all at once every time.



 

Zlejedi on 31 March 2011
Kantor said:

I can say, in all honesty, we had no idea how severe this whole thing had become. All we did wrong was hire a social media expert which, contrary to popular opinion on Reddit, is not the same as a spammer.


Yeah spammer uses brute force aproach while media expert tries to disguise as normal legimate feedback ;)



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