1 yr. ago • 71%

Help defend our banner on /r/place! We are at -811,14.

It's getting late and we only have 2-3 people left. We need help, come over to /r/place and help defend out banner at -811,14. You can join the conversation at https://matrix.to/#/#lemmyplace:data.haus

53 comments

Any traffic on Reddit or engagement with anything they’re doing is bad. Quit visiting r/place. All you’re doing is padding numbers for their IPO stats.

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- I think that getting "fuck u/spez" and ads for the competition all over it is a big win, personally. They are getting a bunch of negative press from this.
  
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  An investment firm executive will have zero clue about what the hell a spez is, why that's relevant, what a third party app means, what an API is. If you attempted to start to explain that, they'd just start ignoring your voice as if it were some random noise.
  
  They'll check the company valuation, their traffic, how much they charge for ads, where they're located, and will invest or not based on that.
  
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  There's no such thing as bad press. All negative press means is that people are talking about it and that's engagement.
  
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  You want to give Reddit bad press? Stop posting links to Lemmy. Start posting links to fetish porn.
  
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  It’s a more modern type of marketing that could be considered controversial marketing. Gets people talking, and it works unfortunately.
  
  Here I am engaging with you because of it.
  
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  What press are we talking about? For shareholders, it's all about people engaging with Reddit so they can use machine learning to target ads to people. r/place is an experiment in how to encourage that engagement to make more money for shareholders.
  
  The best way to influence the IPO is not to engage.
  
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  Now if you could set up a huge bot-net and make the whole thing an obscene picture it will make impact. But I doubt that’s legal and all so don’t do that. Staying off seems to work for me, but I need some filter to remove that site from links here. It’s not very interesting for me to know what happens there. If it was I’d be there
  
  1
- Depends, they already ramp up "traffic" with bots, so just advertising without paying hurts them more in the long term.
  
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- There is no point in trying,You can't argue with morons. Just let the think they won and maybe they will just go back to reddit.
  
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- I think that getting “fuck u/spez” and ads for the competition all over it is a big win, personally. They are getting a bunch of negative press from this.
  
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Fuck /r/place.

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- That's kind of the point.
  
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Good luck to anyone doing it but the whole reason I'm on Lemmy is because I refuse to use reddit's garbage app. I'm not gonna start now.

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- You can do it on the web. Using the app only for /r/place isn't so bad. I'd never use it for anything else.
  
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  Only if you already have the app; otherwise you're bumping up the number of app downloads in the immediate aftermath of the API changes, which is probably exactly what they want to see.
  
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I’m going to buy this beer and pour it out in protest…

I’m going to buy these books and burn them in protest…

I’m going to log into Reddit and place a stern message on /r/place in protest…

Do you see the pattern…

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- We haven't tried burning it?
  
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  Reddit already is a dumpster fire.
  
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Hate-gagement is still engagement

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But the whole point of coming here is I didn't want to use the website and give them engagement.

I think part of the problem is that when everyone is pulling in different directions, the effect of people like me boycotting using Reddit entirely to try to make some kind of dent in their use statistics basically ends up doing nothing.

If you're "defending" your banner, meaning refreshing and adding inputs on a regular basis, you're providing a ton more engagement, views, and clicks, as well as getting other Reddit users more entrenched in their defense of their stupid website, than any other possible activity you could do on that site. So thanks, I guess.

The worst case scenario for r/place is a world where everyone just sits in their corner after populating it at the start. Zero stories, boring, people no longer want to engage. What you're doing? Dramatic gold.

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I think it might be time to move on.

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honestly can’t be bothered. Let reddit fester, the view is great from here

edit: but also do what you want! ;)

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- I think it's understandable that some of the people who spent a lot of time on Reddit over the years want to leave a tiny message as a final goodbye, and this is a great opportunity to do so. Kind of neat really. :)
  
  I'd consider throwing in a pixel if I had a verified account on there.
  
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No. Reddit is dead to me.

You continue to help boost user engagement metrics. Just what the IPO needs.

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Don’t go on Reddit

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Remember when Reddit actually had variety in their site wide social "games"/experiments? Remember the button? Or the colors? Or headdit? Now it feels like r/place is their one trick pony and honestly it's a beaten horse at this point, in my opinion.

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Stop engaging in Reddit. It's time to move on.

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Why would you seek validation from reddit to get away from reddit?

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STOP. GOING. TO. REDDIT.

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'member that site b used to draw swastikas on? how about we make it a time limited fomo event to drive metrics? brilliant right?

Yeah, I've never engaged with this shit and won't start now I'm not even on the site.

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Wait, so it's r/place no longer a 24 hour thing? I thought it would have ended 2 days ago

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- The first time I think it lasted 24 hours (April fool's day)
  
  The second time (last time) it lasted for three days I think.
  
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Meh. You do you, but I'm happy here and don't want to give Reddit any traffic.

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Earning my keep.

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- Yes by helping Reddit
  
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  Or telling those on Reddit to join Lemmy.
  
  Do you not know how marketing works?
  
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I'm going to go to bed in about an hour or 2 and am running 4 out of the 5 or 6 of the accounts we have online. I'm a bit worried that we will lose it as we have the last couple times we got a banner going.

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- Admins will just remove what they dont like anyhow.
  
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  Hasn't happened much so far.
  
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