[red-iron-pine]

> Because if a marketing tactic is easy and effective, intense competition will drive up the price of doing so.

will it? who is occupying and competing in that space, in a business sense? and are they using reddit? if so, which subs and who are they targeted at?

the various build-a-PC subs are a great example -- they have ones for high end GPUs -- literally, r/gpu -- and others for more generic uses. you can shill all-day on r/buildapcsales and do well without having to battle on the more general buildapc

in a broader sense, building consensus is critical, and plenty of businesses or political entities are willing to take huge losses to completely corral public perception -- most notably the purchase of Paramount by everyone's least favorite villian Larry E

[snowwrestler]

You think GPU manufacturers are paying people to post fake positive comments all day in /r/buildapcsales in the hopes of materially increasing their revenue?