[wahnfrieden]

It’s rampant/common in industry. The evidence is self evident in the reviews characteristics.

Secondly the CEO has a history of posting fake user engagement himself or at his command in order to show more popularity than actual. He does this.

You’d look at twitter bot replies and say the same thing huh

[pixl97]

Reddit before today: "Dark patterns, dark patterns everywhere"

Reddit today after collective forgetting: "What do you mean companies use dark patterns?!"

[tredre3]

Yes, Reddit uses plenty of dark patterns. Like begging users to leave a positive review.

Which makes me wonder why y'all prefer to believe that reddit itself is buying reviews from black market bot farms in a giant conspiracy, rather than those dark patterns just being, you know, effective at pushing users to leave low effort reviews?