It's worth noting that another Redditor and mod from /r/AdviceAnimals, /u/ManWithoutModem, independently discovered different evidence that the Quickmeme posts were being manipulated. [1]<p>No one believed him and he was demodded. He's not happy about it.<p><a href="http://np.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/1gvnk4/quickmeme_is_banned_redditwide_more_inside/caoiq3t" rel="nofollow">http://np.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/1gvnk4/quickme...</a>
Now r/adviceanimals users are clamouring for a quickmeme alternative, because the present meme sites (eg: livememe.com) suck. Opportunity for anyone that wants to clone quickmeme.com in the next ~6 hours.
Excellent, a few months ago clicking on a quickmeme (by accident normally when not logged in) link on android resulted in multiple redirects and an attempt to download an apk which was lovely.<p>After that I used RES to filter quickmeme on all my desktops.
I'm not so concerned with Quickmeme et. al, (because I don't follow default subreddits) but rather I'm concerned with voting rings against personal accounts. I had an account for a substantial time where I posted good, useful comments frequently (for which I was upvoted frequently). Once, maybe twice in response to other commenters I disagreed with them, like 0.1% of my time on the site. Afterwards I found myself downvoted to hell no matter what I did, how long I waited between writing comments (ie, 6 months). Everything (quality comments) would go rather quickly to a 0 or a -1/-2. I had to make a new account, there's no way around it.
the owners of grumpy cat hired a "meme manager" to promote and sell their meme. I now hate all internet memes.<p><a href="http://mashable.com/2012/04/17/meme-management/" rel="nofollow">http://mashable.com/2012/04/17/meme-management/</a>
I think Reddit (and HN) should make votes and ip addresses transparent for external analysis. The spammers hide behind these.<p>They could also be more brutal with punishments, route every single link to the offending site through a page that says they were spamming so it's an inconvenience for people and a wall for search engines.
<i>And as such, content submitted within these subreddits are regularly featured on Reddit's front page each day and capable of being clicked on by more than 1 billion people.</i><p>What an odd thing to say. That same hypothetical line of thinking could lead you to say that I'm capable of receiving a trillion dollars tomorrow, simply because I have a fedwire destination address and that much money could hypothetically be transferred to it. Neither has even a slight chance of actually happening.
But there will be nothing left! It will now be all fabricated Facebook posts and 4chan content that is intellectually low-brow enough for the Reddit hivemind to understand!
> <i>Gaming Reddit for traffic has become a regular frustration for the community, which boasts more than 22.9 million monthly visitors in the U.S. alone. This is particularly true within Reddit's default subreddits. All new Reddit users are automatically signed up as subscribers of the site's default subreddits, which include r/AdviceAnimals, r/Atheism, and r/Politics.</i><p>Hmmm...maybe this problem could be alleviated by not auto-subscribing new users to a meme-based forum? Of all the great subreddits, AdviceAnimals (albeit, which is pretty funny sometimes), seems like a silly one to acquaint new users to.<p>Have any of the bustups of voting rings been done algorithmically? That is, does reddit have a way to pick out cluster of reddit accounts that seem to behave like scripted bots? It seems all of the major domain bans (such as the Atlantic) were done through manual user suspicion and inquiry.
This can only be seen as a good thing as Quickmeme tends to be an extremely heavy site with stuff that could be easily handled by simple image linking or, at worst, imgur.
I have always thought imgur, quickmeme and other meme site (forgot its name) are owned by Reddit owners or executives. It is impossible to get upvotes if you embedded image on your site/blog.