Reddit’s advertising clients would see that the clickthrough rate is shit. Which dictates the price that they are willing to pay for the advertisement.
Have you ever clicked on a reddit ad? Many users have shit stats, and if that was used for detecting bots, then bots would click ads, reddit would lose trust, and that would damage them even more
They don’t care to a certain extent. But there is a threshold that if you get too many bots, companies using your platform to advertise will notice a fall in sales. And if sales drop on your platform, the money stops. Because bots don’t buy things, real humans do.
What is the threshold? I don’t know, I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn last night.
Money, Reddit makes money by selling advertising.
They don’t care if it’s quality or not, more comments/posts equal more money. Capitalism 101.
Reddit’s advertising clients would see that the clickthrough rate is shit. Which dictates the price that they are willing to pay for the advertisement.
Have you ever clicked on a reddit ad? Many users have shit stats, and if that was used for detecting bots, then bots would click ads, reddit would lose trust, and that would damage them even more
This has nothing to do with users’ stats. This has to do with how advertisers judge if it’s worth to place ads on a particular platform.
They don’t care to a certain extent. But there is a threshold that if you get too many bots, companies using your platform to advertise will notice a fall in sales. And if sales drop on your platform, the money stops. Because bots don’t buy things, real humans do.
What is the threshold? I don’t know, I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn last night.
They’re not making money off these bots though.
They don’t care. They can make it look like there’s More™ and that’s all that matters.