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Mike Hardaker, who has maintained a Reddit account for 20 years, has been shadow-banned on Reddit. He has posted an update on X, stating that Reddit requires an ad spend to restore organic posting. This demand was given to him in writing.

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[–] bonenode@piefed.social 54 points 3 months ago (6 children)
[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 39 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Writing spam posts like "I'm really satisfied using this website, totallynotanad.com" or "try using Company XYZ, their service is really good"

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

REAL humans posting. anything that utilizes bots, AI isnt organic, but reddit often bans the real humans over AI posting.

as you know reddit bans people if it looks for patterns thats repeating itself.

[–] bonenode@piefed.social 37 points 3 months ago

Hmmm, human posting? I like it.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

Like you just did with your comment and OP did with their posting: non paid ad posting

[–] darklamer@feddit.org 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A posting made by an organic life form, typically a human.

[–] MoonRaven@feddit.nl 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

On the internet no one knows youre a dog.

[–] ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

On the internet, no one knows you're made of cups

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago
[–] socsa@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago

Posting which doesn't use petroleum based fertilizer

[–] hector@lemmy.today -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's a variation on a reddit as I understand it, an unusual sex move. Organic posting is where, well, you don't want to know.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's when you don't have sex because you are posting on reddit?

[–] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 3 months ago

No I think it's when you sit in the cuck chair and beat off to the government raping someone while you pretend it's consensual.