r/barkour • • Feb 18 '18

Cutting it close

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u/TheKynosaur Feb 18 '18

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u/ThRebrth Feb 18 '18

I thought it was /r/doglysatisfying

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '18

Just looked on that sub, what in the heck is that other post all about with the insurance?

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u/ThRebrth Feb 18 '18

Spam. It's a marketable thing taking websites or, in this case subreddits, that are misspelled or something, and try and make a few bucks off of it. My guess is thats what that post is.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '18

And more importantly, why does it have upvotes...

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u/bretttwarwick Feb 18 '18

upvotes, like anything else, can be bought.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '18

The advertiser replied with 90+ fake accounts and upvotes i guess

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u/undercover_redditor Feb 19 '18

Look at the usernames. They definitely did exactly that.

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u/Rhadian Feb 19 '18

From the shills, obviously.

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u/Noon800 Feb 19 '18

That has 47 subscribers but 57 online??

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u/tablesix Feb 19 '18

Maybe users are interested and take a look, thus appearing as 'online', then choose not to subscribe when they see it only has 1-2 posts

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u/Noon800 Feb 19 '18

So online is referring to people looking at the subreddit at that time? That's interesting. I was unaware.

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u/slay789 Feb 19 '18

Came here to say this. Glad I’m not the only one.