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by pixl97 1098 days ago
Reddit before today: "Dark patterns, dark patterns everywhere"

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

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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?