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You can buy 700 votes anonymously on reddit for really cheap
I don't see that it's a big deal, really. It's the same as it ever was.
Over a houndred dollars for 700 upvotes O_o
I wouldn't exactly call that cheap ๐ค
On the other hand, ten or twenty quick downvotes on an early answer could swing things I guess ...
For the companies who want a huge advantage over others, $100 is nothing in an advertising budget.
I have a small business and I do $1000 a week in advertising.
Yeah, 700 upvotes soon after a post is made could easily shoot it up to the top of even a popular sub for a few days (specially with the lack of mod tools rn), with others upvoting it purely because it already has alot of upvotes.
the only problem here is that 700 reddit upvotes is not "huge advantage over others". i honestly fail to see how someone could pay $100 for that. i'd consider $10 too much.
or do you spend your $1000 budget on 7000 reddit upvotes? :D
700 extra upvotes in the first couple hours on a medium sized hobby sub is an enormous amount and will give you great exposure to potentially tens of thousands of potential customers who won't just ignore it like some banner ad (since they'll think it's real content).
If you're an indie dev marketing game, it's cheap as shit. Shoving your post into the faces of thousands would very easily get you more than that in sales.
To me, the draw of Lemmy is that it's not the same as it ever was here. I don't know the internet before ads, this place is great!
Cause the problem, sell the solution. What a degenerate.