im surprised they even kept it this long, considered even bots gave up on it.

he knew it was going to enshittify from them on, took his money and ran.

they probably allow astroturfing, alot of reviews sites do that.

there were subs getting in trouble for asking nudes, mainly medical, where perverts were asking CP-type pictures of thier privates of minors, i think the subs became aware and started making it known you cant post as a minor anymore, or have to label the post without pics.

i do that too, trying to give them advice , that people wouldnt try to astroturf your comment.

i Used PM alot before Trumps first term, and somewhat during him to. i stopped once i started getting into arguments with people about a certain they were doing wrong(like how a dude was trying to apply to same company job at different times or different position, i was saying there is no way they would hire you once you get rejected, he was deadset on reapplying no reason other than how convenient it is for him) and i was getting warnings. i do it doesnt clutter up the subs, that would flag my account as a spammer originally.

enshittification actually.

everyone on tumbler went to TWITTER and reddit for porn, and then OF. imagine the amount of users will disappeared if they banned porn. there were other forums, pics like subs that had regular porn you see on reddit but they were so unregulated they have discussion and imagery about CSAM and beastility.

i did originally used with other person on reddit, with a job specific sub. that was about it, and every other time was a spammer trying to contact people.

do you remember when YAHOO answers was a thing, the old format was like old reddit pages, but permanently changed to the “new reddit format” and everyone hated it. endless scrolling is laggier than just changing pages.

private messages as its called, when you directly send a message to someone, nobody else can see it. a chat is public and its possible to be join in the chat.

its been in trash since they try to force new reddit down peoples throats.

it was for bots, still but barely, i think they gave up on it.

chat is more public, and prone to spammers. PM/DM is a private message to someone that the public cant see.

google probably allows the reviews to be astroturfed by indian spammers.

he got what he wanted out of reddit, the 249mil in stocks.

i was able to do that before the pandemic, go on the university computers to create various accounts, when one was sub banned i just avoided the subs in the new ones, now that i have no access to it anymore, and going back would be super awakward, since the staff, prof recognized me the many times i went there at odd times just to use reddit.(originally i was using ti for job hunting/resume reviewal.

they probably know people are pretty unhappy about all the bans they have been recieving, even for not violating policies.

they do randomly unban people eventually, just not the serial repeaters. and they know they are in the wrong banning regular using with questionable “violations” that should be temp bans.

sounds like they backtracked.