VG Chartz busted for content spamming reddit

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Kantor 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

VGC hired someone to co-ordinate content sharing websites.

That guy went crazy and started exploiting Reddit. We had no idea he was working for other sites. We had no idea he had 20 Reddit accounts. He claimed to be well-versed in Reddit, we'd never used Reddit, it was a good match. This is all in Havok's explanation.

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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 ;)

That's part of it, yes. But also, not all Social Media Managerss are spammers. To be honest, I learned the term from Dilbert.

http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-09-13/

http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-09-14/

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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.

Ya' know, I always thought it was loadedstatement who controlled vgc's facebook account. But now that I think about it, vgc's update statuses did get quite out of hand the last couple months.

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