So I checked out reddit after a long time and was going through the top of r/videogames subreddit and I could clearly see a pattern in most of the posts there. Posts were mostly like “what game ______ for you?” or “what game _____ like this?” Now I could be wrong but it doesn’t feel ‘organic’ (if that’s correct way to put it). It’s like these are put up intentionally. Thoughts?

  • @BlazeEnglish
    37•9 months ago

    You are not the only one noticing it. Probably trying to maximize the user provided content they can sell to language model creators

      • @BlazeEnglish
        5•9 months ago

        Indeed, thanks for the link!

        • mesamuneEnglish
          6•9 months ago

          NP! I didnt know about it until recently too. It was eye opening on why im seeing so many “safe” posts make it to the top and why so many google search results now include reddit posts recently.

            • mesamuneEnglish
              2•9 months ago

              Nope, I have projects that used to pull top x on Google searches based on some seo work I did back in 2016-2017. It’s significantly more. Granted the dataset is super old by now and you would have to trust a random on the internet (aka me) in order to believe, but it hasn’t been always been reddit.