Lacrosse Goalie Scores

Just gonna hop in here: I actually tried some of the sketchier reddit advertising things before on a small scale a couple years ago. I found a dude who sold me 200 upvotes across several posts for like 20 bucks. This was a one-man operation as far as I could tell, and the options he had were pretty complex - choose the number of upvotes per post, "drip" them over the course of several hours so they seem more realistic, upvote/downvote comments, make comments and replies, etc.. From what I could tell it was fully automated too.

The results were really good. I did one post on a small-ish subreddit (typical top post ~100 upvotes) and stayed on the front page of that sub for a day. The number of upvotes far exceeded what I paid for - turns out, kinda obviously, if people see a new post with lots of upvotes, they're more likely to click it. And if it's genuinely interesting, they'll upvote too, and suddenly you have a popular post for a couple bucks.

It's much more cost-effective than Reddit ads, where, for example, I spent $10 in one campaign for effectively nothing (1k views and like 10 clicks, which didn't stick).

I think even for larger subs, you can realistically force front-page posts with probably under 200 fake upvotes as long as your content is somewhat good. Given that some rando like me was able to find someone to do this for an extremely affordable price, I'm sure large corps have access to much more organized efforts.

A while back some sock company got to /r/all with a super obviously fake post - like 2k upvotes in 1 hour on a new subreddit advertising their socks. They were an example of amateurs with no clue what they were doing - everyone called them out in the comments - but even they had no trouble getting a post to /r/all when they wanted it to be there.

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