[KennyBlanken]

I wish more people realized that virtually any subreddit for a company or product is run by the company - either directly or via a firm that specializes in 'sentiment analysis and management' or whatever the marketdroids call it these days. Even if they don't remove posts via moderation, they'll just hammer it with downvotes from sockpuppet accounts.

HN goes a step further. It has a function that allows moderators to kill or boost a post by subtracting or adding a large amount to the post's score. HN is primarily a place for Y Combinator to hype their latest venture, and a "safe" place for other startups and tech companies.

[Snakes3727]

Yes and it irritates the hell out of me. Cursor support is garbage, but issues with billing and other things are so much worse.

The team I work with it took nearly 3 months to get basic questions answered correctly when it came to a sales contract. They never gave our Sec team acceptable answers around privacy and security.

[thinkingemote]

I've always wondered how Reddit can make money from these companies. I agree they are literally everywhere, even in non-company specific but generic subreddits where if it's big enough you might have multiple shadow marketing firms competing to push their products (e.g. AI, movies, food, porn etc).

Reddit is free to play for marketing firms. Perhaps they could add extra statistics, analytics, promotions for these commercial users.