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submitted 8 months ago by kbal@fedia.io to c/reddit@lemmy.world
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you’re invited to a special program that lets redditors purchase stock

I loaded a page on reddit due to a search result and found out that I'm among the chosen few. Message sent yesterday. They must've gotten fewer takers than expected on the first round of invites if they're now offering shares to people who haven't posted, commented, voted, or done anything else on the site for the past 8 months.

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[-] Boozilla@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

They are definitely scraping the barrel. I got one. Meanwhile, my account was wiped of comments (and a lot of my comments were very anti-reddit and/or pro-fediverse). The account has been dormant for several months. I had fairly high karma, but mostly from 2 or 3 dumb/funny memes that the hivemind loved for whatever arbitrary reason of timing/ subreddit.

Reddit always had a weird vibe / momentum to the votes. Say the dumb thing in a fan service way and they eat it up. Gallowboob was the master manipulator, but it wasn't overly difficult to get lucky and pick up 10k to 20k upvotes with a single well-timed pithy remark or predictable joke.

Also, if a comment got early down-votes it tended to keep going in that direction, even if the comment was adding to the discussion. Simple momentum, even with vote fuzzing in play. Occasionally you'd see one bounce back up if others called out the BS of the down-votes.

I'm grateful Lemmy doesn't aggregate karma. Keep posts and comments self-contained. Fresh start on every new thread!

[-] ramble81@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago

This round was anyone with more than 25K karma. I haven’t touched my account since the API fiasco last year and I got the email too.

[-] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

one time I was trying to see how good I am at gaming the system, and scored 25k in two days with a throwaway account and a bunch of strategically placed comments, and I know there are people even better at it than I am. looks like they're getting desperate.

[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Sounds like the IPO is not going as well as expected lol

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 months ago

I don't really know what the fuck they expected, when they announced the ipo and then disclosed "Oh btw we don't make any money and never have, also our users can literally shut our entire site down at a moment's notice"

[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

There's that and the fact that almost every time Reddit is mentioned in the news now it's about them actively trying to drive away users with idiotic new "features" lol

[-] JeromeVancouver@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago

I also got the message yesterday. It seemed desperate. I blocked the user.

[-] Mr_Mofu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 months ago

Oh are they rare? I got 2 Emails for both my account, one of em hasn't seen use in years

[-] kbal@fedia.io 2 points 8 months ago

I wouldn't have thought they'd be rare, except that I didn't get one until now. They don't have my email address though, perhaps that's why.

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