Topic: Blowing up today on Reddit - go upvote!! (Read 5462 times)
Soliciting upvotes is a good way to get yourself shadowbanned.
Made sure to up vote. Not sure if it matters as much 5 days later... heh
Wow, that thread is great! I think this is my favorite comment:
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Are you kidding me? Is this thread filled with as many BitCoin promoters as it feels like? Pretty much every upvoted comment/thread looks like it was planned out. I don't know why, but something feels really fishy about this whole thing.
I don't know if it is good or bad but rigging a reddit should be quite easy. Consider an issue tracker that treats each reply to one reddit as an issue. The interested community could mark issues as resolved as soon as a sufficiently good answer was given. This way a far smaller group can answer far more posts without all having to read all posts.
A more generic approach would be a browser plugin that allows me to mark reddit users as competent/my team/insiders and the plugin automatically collapses all posts that were already dealt with by a marked users.
Something like that could be built as a RES plugin.
what is an RES plugin? (yes, I duckducked it a bit but didn't find it).
Wow, that thread is great! I think this is my favorite comment:
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Are you kidding me? Is this thread filled with as many BitCoin promoters as it feels like? Pretty much every upvoted comment/thread looks like it was planned out. I don't know why, but something feels really fishy about this whole thing.
I don't know if it is good or bad but rigging a reddit should be quite easy. Consider an issue tracker that treats each reply to one reddit as an issue. The interested community could mark issues as resolved as soon as a sufficiently good answer was given. This way a far smaller group can answer far more posts without all having to read all posts.
A more generic approach would be a browser plugin that allows me to mark reddit users as competent/my team/insiders and the plugin automatically collapses all posts that were already dealt with by a marked users.
Something like that could be built as a RES plugin.
The EnoughPaulSpam crew of professional astroturfers raided the thread and buried the comments of pretty much anyone saying factual things about Bitcoin, with 40+ down votes each comment. They also introduced and up voted their usual FUD and disinformation. They are quite the destructive cointelpro force, have been since the Digg days.
But it was one day too late. Har har.
However, one comment at the top which contained some concern trolling did get visibility. Perhaps next time such a situation can be dealt with more, ahem, effectively.
All in all,
Well done my fellow redditors.
But it was one day too late. Har har.
However, one comment at the top which contained some concern trolling did get visibility. Perhaps next time such a situation can be dealt with more, ahem, effectively.
All in all,
Well done my fellow redditors.
Wow, that thread is great! I think this is my favorite comment:
Quote
Are you kidding me? Is this thread filled with as many BitCoin promoters as it feels like? Pretty much every upvoted comment/thread looks like it was planned out. I don't know why, but something feels really fishy about this whole thing.
I don't know if it is good or bad but rigging a reddit should be quite easy. Consider an issue tracker that treats each reply to one reddit as an issue. The interested community could mark issues as resolved as soon as a sufficiently good answer was given. This way a far smaller group can answer far more posts without all having to read all posts.
A more generic approach would be a browser plugin that allows me to mark reddit users as competent/my team/insiders and the plugin automatically collapses all posts that were already dealt with by a marked users.
I like it. Would definitely use it together with you guys. Call it "crowd control" or something
.Wow, that thread is great! I think this is my favorite comment:
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Are you kidding me? Is this thread filled with as many BitCoin promoters as it feels like? Pretty much every upvoted comment/thread looks like it was planned out. I don't know why, but something feels really fishy about this whole thing.
I don't know if it is good or bad but rigging a reddit should be quite easy. Consider an issue tracker that treats each reply to one reddit as an issue. The interested community could mark issues as resolved as soon as a sufficiently good answer was given. This way a far smaller group can answer far more posts without all having to read all posts.
A more generic approach would be a browser plugin that allows me to mark reddit users as competent/my team/insiders and the plugin automatically collapses all posts that were already dealt with by a marked users.
The concept of mining makes the folk suspicious. Creating money out of thin air? Blasphemy!
How about explaining it like this instead:
All 21 million bitcoins were instantly created when Satoshi designed the algorithm. They just haven't all been distributed yet.
That way the mental image will hopefully be coins being taken out of a vault somewhere and given to the miners, rather than the miners creating coins out of thin air.
I like this much better. All the Bitcoins have been created, just not distributed.
The concept of mining makes the folk suspicious. Creating money out of thin air? Blasphemy!
How about explaining it like this instead:
All 21 million bitcoins were instantly created when Satoshi designed the algorithm. They just haven't all been distributed yet.
That way the mental image will hopefully be coins being taken out of a vault somewhere and given to the miners, rather than the miners creating coins out of thin air.
Wow, that thread is great! I think this is my favorite comment:
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Are you kidding me? Is this thread filled with as many BitCoin promoters as it feels like? Pretty much every upvoted comment/thread looks like it was planned out. I don't know why, but something feels really fishy about this whole thing.
And this response to the above is also classic:Quote
It's almost as if people had asked these questions before!
It reminds me of a similar phenomenon I still see (although less and less frequently) in comments on stories dealing with drug prohibition. Some God-fearing, red-blooded, flag-waving American wanders in and becomes confused and alarmed. ("Drugs are BAD. And BAD THINGS should be ILLEGAL. I mean, everyone knows that ... right?") He's astonished to encounter a well-informed and articulate counterview. And he's even more astonished to find himself in the unfamiliar position of holding the minority viewpoint. wow, just saw that bitcointip bot. That's awesome.
Unfotunately it doesn't answer my messages ;(
Could it be down or am I doing something wrong?
Unfotunately it doesn't answer my messages ;(
Could it be down or am I doing something wrong?
/time traveler spotted
bbit, can you use a different avatar? I discard every post of you at the point I realize you're not gavin, no matter how good your post. I just think: what an ass, posing as gavin. Maybe it's just me but I thought I'd let you know.
Dude, you're posing as a deity. Are you really in a position to talk?
Are you sure I'm posing as the deity. You better watch out, I might have good connections with fortuna!
bbit, can you use a different avatar? I discard every post of you at the point I realize you're not gavin, no matter how good your post. I just think: what an ass, posing as gavin. Maybe it's just me but I thought I'd let you know.
Dude, you're posing as a deity. Are you really in a position to talk?
Where's Genjjix when you need him?
why do you need him?
He's very experienced in explaining Bitcoins to people.
Where's Genjjix when you need him?
why do you need him?
Where's Genjjix when you need him?
Please upvote this video as well:
http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/14pt5m/how_to_create_a_free_bitcoin_wallet/
http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/14pt5m/how_to_create_a_free_bitcoin_wallet/
It's amazing how many people don't get it. What is funny is they are seeing the future of how everything is going to go right in front of them. What is there not to like about Bitcoin?
edit:Also, good jobs to the guys who are putting up the good fight !
edit:Also, good jobs to the guys who are putting up the good fight !
bbit, can you use a different avatar? I discard every post of you at the point I realize you're not gavin, no matter how good your post. I just think: what an ass, posing as gavin. Maybe it's just me but I thought I'd let you know.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only one who know about btctip.com. Tipping service for Twitter. It's simmilar to btctip bot on reddit.
I've tried it a long while back. I don't know, it's just not as much fun as with the reddit tipbot. Maybe it's just the fact that I still have problems warming up with twitter. I never seem to get anything substantial out of it. It's just a spammy newsfeed for me. Reddit is discussion and it feels like there's actual people there.
I'd bet the bitcointipbot handles orders of magnitude more volume than btctip.
With or without the help of the hosting site? I was considering this project a few months ago.
... The tip jar can do this automatically for the top 5 sites (youtube,etc).
... The tip jar can do this automatically for the top 5 sites (youtube,etc).
The WordPress plugin would be installed on each individual blog but report back with the server for the tipbot. Then the plugin could ping the tipbot when a tip needs to be verified and processed. The tipbots would also be able to monitor the sites (but don't eat too much bandwidth!) where the plugin is installed. Perhaps have a blogger API key for installation.
This would solve a need that bloggers have with a way to interact with and reward the community that develops around their blog. Good highly quality comments that are rewarded with bitcoins, by either the blogger or other commenters, would be an excellent way to get bitcoins into that community. Then the blogger could sell products, like ebooks, for bitcoins and spend bitcoins on hosting, etc. Plus, it would help bloggers counteract all the trolls from the Air Force's blog commenter program.
What I envision is a WordPress plugin that works kind of like Gravatar or Disquis where a commenter can create an identity in one place but have it show up in multiple places. 'Facebook comments' has tried to do this but most bloggers do not want their nasty code intertwining with their website. Comment sections often have great content but it is just really hard to find and weed through all the trash. People could make their tipping history public and then others could see where the insightful comments are.
Its an interesting proposal. A generic tipbot server and then custom integrations with the top sites that solves issues like identity validation. Last summer it was questionable (in my mind) whether these sites and the public would be "friendly" towards this kind of thing (as opposed to seeing it as some form of spam) but the reddit tipbot and the recent spate of legitimizing news may make the difference.
I wonder if SAAS APIs exist to integrate this with existing online wallets (blockchain, etc)... if so the job becomes a lot easier -- you wouldn't even need to handle the BTC and the additional development care and ongoing security maintenance that that implies. Regardless, I expect the BTC held by this tipbot would be pretty limited and so not a great target for thieves.
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