Reddit doesn’t seem to understand what their platform is for. If people are adding “reddit” to the end of google searches, it shows that they want brands to talk less, and real people to talk more.
Since when do brands want to be known on Reddit? Isn’t the entire point to make a bunch of fake accounts and post positive comments about said brand, to make them look good?
HEY REDDIT, WHAT’S A BRAND YOU’LL BUY FOR LIFE!?
Queue the thousands of totally not brand accounts posting why said product is so perfect and you’ll never buy any other brand again!
But now the verified account can be like: ooo wow, we are totally humbled by the love for our product thank you so much you guys!!
Then that will get screenshotted and posted on r/wholesome r/wholesomememes and r/mademesmile then make the rounds there forever.
For guerrilla marketing techniques sure
But for official advertisements I imagine they would want to do them on a verified account.
Like that disgusting “Samsung AMA” which was just a campaign for their S20-something. They deleted any question that wasn’t basically, “what’s so cool about [this feature] on the S20-something that I’m planning to get?”
Have on official account to post announcements then bots to upvote it.
That’s great news, I’m really digging the slow downfall.
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Something something die a hero something something become the villain.
I guess there will just be a bunch of verified accounts running around doing “organic” marketing for their latest projects now.
Boy, I am sure glad nobody has ever done that on Lemmy before.
Weren’t they already doing that? I swear, you read some posts and it’s like a PR team is trying to get a story buried. Like after a Leo DiCaprios dating history got air time you started seeing him in more memes the next days, and TILs about how he was a good actor
They were/are. They’re just making it official now.
Just saw a post by Bloomberg and u/Bloomberg has a little green checkmark by their name.
TILs about how he was a good actor
Academy Award sigh winning character actor.
yeah. they’re called “ads”
Silence, brand.
This will just make them be down voted to oblivion by default… See EA
‘we have verified that no brands want to be here, and thus haven’t labeled anything’
Remember when reddit was people oriented?
So 2013-2014? Lol
Gods I’m glad I left that shithole.
That’s cool, I think a lot of us here would label Reddit as verifiably stupid.
I don’t see anything immediately wrong with verification. There are cases where people reach out to companies for support, and having them be verified helps. Tech enthusiasts like us might be less susceptible to phishing/scams, but regular folks aren’t.
However, after everything Reddit has done recently, there’s no stopping them from turning this into a status symbol thing like “the website formerly known as Twitter”. They could tweak their algorithm to boost comments of “verified” accounts, degrading the quality of conversation there.
