<story><title>Reddit App – Suspicious high number of recent 5 star, one word reviews</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/14at885/the_reddit_app_has_a_suspiciously_high_number_of/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>indymike</author><text>How long until the adults at Conde Nast step in and stop the madness? This whole thing is:&lt;p&gt;1. Doing long term damage to search position for Reddit content. Results, short and long term reduction in SEO generated traffic, fewer ad clicks, lower revenue, and a loss in valuation. Also, paying to get traffic will cut into margin, further reducing valuation.&lt;p&gt;2. Causing users to delete their accounts, lowering active user counts, and cutting Reddit&amp;#x27;s valuation.&lt;p&gt;3. Forcing people doing work for free to stop, meaning that Reddit will have to spend money to either hire or recruit and train more free moderators, resulting in increased operating costs, thus reducing profit margins, resulting in a lower valuation.&lt;p&gt;4. If it is true that management at Reddit is undeleting deleted users and accounts, they may be creating a situation where they claim they have more users than they do. Because this is the result of management&amp;#x27;s actions, it could be viewed negatively by regulators and law enforcement.&lt;p&gt;What is going on needs to be stopped. It&amp;#x27;s insane.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spiffytech</author><text>There are two possibilities that I can see:&lt;p&gt;1) Spez is right, this is a tempest in a teapot that hasn&amp;#x27;t (yet) had a big impact on traffic, and won&amp;#x27;t once they seize control of the rebelling subreddits. A vocal minority cares of the public about the impact on the community, but stakeholders realize the business will be fine.&lt;p&gt;2) Spez is wrong, and is comfortable misrepresenting the situation to the public at minimum. Maybe he misrepresents it to internal stakeholders too. The situation will appear under control right up until the moment the wheels fly off.&lt;p&gt;Could be a little of column A, a little of column B.</text></comment>
<story><title>Reddit App – Suspicious high number of recent 5 star, one word reviews</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/14at885/the_reddit_app_has_a_suspiciously_high_number_of/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>indymike</author><text>How long until the adults at Conde Nast step in and stop the madness? This whole thing is:&lt;p&gt;1. Doing long term damage to search position for Reddit content. Results, short and long term reduction in SEO generated traffic, fewer ad clicks, lower revenue, and a loss in valuation. Also, paying to get traffic will cut into margin, further reducing valuation.&lt;p&gt;2. Causing users to delete their accounts, lowering active user counts, and cutting Reddit&amp;#x27;s valuation.&lt;p&gt;3. Forcing people doing work for free to stop, meaning that Reddit will have to spend money to either hire or recruit and train more free moderators, resulting in increased operating costs, thus reducing profit margins, resulting in a lower valuation.&lt;p&gt;4. If it is true that management at Reddit is undeleting deleted users and accounts, they may be creating a situation where they claim they have more users than they do. Because this is the result of management&amp;#x27;s actions, it could be viewed negatively by regulators and law enforcement.&lt;p&gt;What is going on needs to be stopped. It&amp;#x27;s insane.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gkoberger</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know how much sway Conde Nast has. Reddit spun out in 2011, and since then has raised about $1.25bn (!!) dollars.&lt;p&gt;So I doubt Conde Nast has much say, if any, at this point.... and while I dislike everything spez is doing, I imagine he has the full backing of investors looking to IPO soon.</text></comment>