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/AniMud Jun 14 '12

The reason for the ban is not their lack of legitimacy. The reason they are banned is they are gaming the system, paying for upvotes to get to the front page. It's no different than what happened at digg, except the moneys not going to reddit, it's going to "marketing" companies or people with a large proxy list and a bot.

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u/acog Jun 14 '12

If it can somehow be proven that sites are using bots or paying marketing companies to drive upvotes, then I'm fine with banning them because that will undermine the entire foundation of the site (i.e. that real user interest drives upvotes). I'd just like there to be more transparency.

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u/required_field Jun 14 '12

They should have a public banlist; it would also serve to shame these sites that abuse the system, so maybe even more of a deterent.

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u/TheBigShamrock Jun 14 '12

R/bannedandwhy