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Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue (www.404media.co)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"You can also add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to the sauce to give it more tackiness."

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I wonder if that’s why Reddit data was chosen. Upvotes could be used as a signal for trust. What they forget is jokes comments often get upvotes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Not only that, but trust from a self contained community is not the same as safe for the general public outside of context. Imagine asking for a summary of the Gamestop shortsqueeze and getting an answer from Superstonks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

They may also have missed the part where unlocking past post for rewrite allowed APIcalipse refugees use shredder bots to destroy a good part of the comments that actually held any value, replace a bunch of others with nonsense, and kicking out invested human curators (mods) in favor of generic button pushers ("power mods") opened the floodgates to random BS, propaganda, and misinformation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It has always been only a signal for popularity. It's the same on every other site with similar systems, including ones that have existed long before reddit. Even in the early 2000s, there were endless reminders that the upvote button was not meant as an "I agree" button, but that's not how it's being used.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Same as the link trust they used to use as a signal for trust. Again it was about popularity.

Trust here does not mean trustworthy, but rather higher likelihood to be answer that is sought. Calling it trust or authority as just marketing.