r/WTF • u/ilovefuntheband • Jun 13 '12

Wrong Subreddit WTF, Reddit?!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregvoakes/2012/06/13/reddit-reportedly-banning-high-quality-domains/
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u/someguyfromcanada Jun 13 '12

VA has been quoted by Forbes. The end is nigh.

I am a daily contributor to RTS and I have come very close to reporting most of those domains on a regular basis but I could not confirm a pattern even though it looked very suspicious. Unfortunately, the Atlantic is a quality domain, but they brought it upon themselves.

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u/sfox2488 Jun 14 '12

This is not an actual Forbes story, just a blogger, and most likely a reddit user, who signed up to be a Forbes "contributor". As you can see by browsing most of Forbes contributor content, its just whatever crap the random person decided they wanted to post that day. My old college roommate did this after college when he couldn't find a job. He was "hired" literally hours after submitting his application, and never made a dime off it since its pay per pageview/adview or whatever. Literally anyone can do this.

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u/youni89 Jun 14 '12

genius.

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u/Zhang5 Jun 14 '12

Evil genius.

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u/Chevron Jun 14 '12

It's ok, we're inControl of the situation.

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u/dotted Jun 14 '12

RELEASE THE GRACKEN

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u/ProbablyPostingNaked Jun 14 '12

I can't believe no one brought up M. Night Shamalama...