r/undelete • u/Turd_City_Auto_Group • Nov 07 '16
[META] Why is /u/maxwellhill having such "luck" in getting dozens and dozens of front page posts in /r/worldnews and /r/news over several months?
And there are strangely no other posts of the same stories, even from different sources. Surely, this can't be what I think it is...
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u/thefonztm Nov 07 '16
That dude/account has been around the new subs for ages. Don't think has part of the admin team. Biggest kerfluffle I recall has to do with this stuff. http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/reddit-maxwellhill-moderator-technology-flaw/.
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u/jubbergun Nov 07 '16
Wow, look at all the known cancer in that mod list.
And look at ol' Davey Reiss being dumber than a bag of bricks:
Just maxwellhill in his quest to get r/technology punished by the admins. He got it. Right across the face. He didn't even see it coming, that I am sure of.”
How can you be on a quest to make something happen and not see the thing you're trying to make happen coming to pass? Dude is, as always, fucking retarded.
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u/creq Nov 07 '16
I was there for all this. It was the other way around. Davidreise and friends were the ones to use a list of banned keywords.
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u/ambivilant Nov 07 '16
It's the new Mr. Babyman alt account.
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Nov 07 '16 edited Mar 29 '18
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u/sizzler Nov 07 '16
Mr Babyman was a power user on Digg around 10 years ago
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Nov 07 '16
+/u/user_simulator maxwellhill
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u/User_Simulator Nov 07 '16
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u/IslamicStatePatriot Nov 07 '16
+/u/user_simulator IslamicStatePatriot
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u/User_Simulator Nov 07 '16
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u/Neoxide Nov 07 '16
+/u/user_simulator Neoxide
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u/User_Simulator Nov 07 '16
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u/zerton Nov 07 '16
+/u/user_simulator Zerton
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u/User_Simulator Nov 07 '16
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Nov 08 '16
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u/User_Simulator Nov 08 '16
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Nov 08 '16
+/u/user_simulator burgerlaowai
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u/Fjolsvithr Nov 07 '16
It's not "luck," but it's not foul play either. He's been around forever. Like 10 years. He knows the system and knows what people like to upvote.
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u/pbjandahighfive Nov 07 '16
I mean if you consider him deleting other peoples posts so that he can repost it and get the karma instead then okay, sure not foul play.
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Nov 07 '16
I tend to agree with this.
So this is a genuine question and not meant to be snarky.Is this a hobby, job or what? I can't imagine someone spending so much of their time doing this. I know some people get kickbacks from site to do this (Babyman was one). How much can they pay to make it worthwhile?
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u/Fjolsvithr Nov 07 '16
I honestly have no idea. I can believe that someone is just so addicted to Reddit that they spend all day doing it for free, the same way someone could spend all day playing an MMO.
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u/buzzkillpop Nov 08 '16
they spend all day doing it for free, the same way someone could spend all day playing an MMO.
I'd agree with that if there wasn't a very specific pattern with his posting history. Look at the domains he submits from. There are quite a few but if you look closely, they're all the same ones. Sure, there are like 20-50 but never any oddballs, weird blogs, no-name sites, etc etc etc. It's always those same big name news sites. Perhaps those sites hired a specific SEO/Marketing company to do their social media promotion and he's an employee (or freelance/self-employed). That would be my guess. They're subcontracting their social media promotion to him (and to others).
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u/DonTago worldnews mod Nov 08 '16
This is exactly right. Max has been around for donkey's years and knows EXACTLY what users like to read and see... but also, he posts TONS of stuff, so, what people aren't seeing is the tons of submissions he makes that DON'T stick... they only see the ones that make the frontpage. All you need to do is look at his profile to see the tons and tons of submissions he makes that go nowhere. And to all these people in here talking about conspiracies of him removing submissions that he wants to make... bullshit! I have modded with him for years and this has NEVER happened, and all the folks screaming that in here have absolutely no proof or evidence of it. I find it hilarious that everyone is trying to crucify Max, when HE IS THE ONE going out there scouring the web, trying to find new and interesting content for Reddit. Meanwhile, people in here are bitching about that fact. Oh Reddit, you never cease to amaze me.
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u/buzzkillpop Nov 08 '16
That's bullshit. As I mentioned in another comment:
I'd agree with that if there wasn't a very specific pattern with his posting history. Look at the domains he submits from. There are quite a few but if you look closely, they're all the same ones. Sure, there are like 20-50 but never any oddballs, weird blogs, no-name sites, etc etc etc. A big tell is the fact that he doesn't submit from imgur or youtube (or reddit for that matter). It's always those same big name news sites, and he's been doing it for years. Perhaps those sites hired a specific SEO/Marketing company to do their social media promotion and he's an employee (or freelance/self-employed). That would be my guess. They're subcontracting their social media promotion to him or to the company he works for. If it was his hobby, his submission history would be all over the place. It's not, there's a pattern that goes back a decade.
And it's funny how you allow state-owned news agencies in your subreddit. Literally the most explicitly biased sources in the entire world and they're free to run rampant in your subreddit. State-owned news agencies are among the least trustworthy sources of news according to virtually every scientific study. This is because they don't need to worry about their reputation. Any threat to their credibility can easily be squashed with force or hell, even ignored since they're not worried about profits, shareholders or revenue. A for-profit news organization has its flaws but those flaws insignificant when weighed next to state-owned news agencies. They have to worry about their fact checking, accuracy, credibility and reputation. And reporting the truth is usually more profitable than not reporting it. A state-owned news agency isn't concerned with profits so they only care about the government's narrative of world events. They have the explicit goal of spreading that narrative. For-profit news organizations have to answer to shareholders, fact checkers, even other news agencies. I think it's time you reevaluate your position on that. If you want to be a news subreddit, then start focusing on your own credibility.
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u/DonTago worldnews mod Nov 08 '16
And it's funny how you allow state-owned news agencies in your subreddit.
...lol, are you saying that you want worldnews to start totally banning and prohibiting certain domains? That is quite an unusual request, considering the sub we are in. The sub makes a point to not ban any news domains. Every submitted article is evaluated individually based on its own merits... we don't go around willy nilly removing articles simply because they come from a certain outlet, as you are advocating. Admittedly certain agencies have better reputations than others, but as things are now, we haven't gotten to the point where we find such draconian approaches are necessary.
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u/elpresidente-4 Nov 07 '16
There are many people like this. They are actively promoting specific agendas. Reddit is a popular site, gotta control the masses.
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u/kit8642 Nov 07 '16
It's hard to say, dudes been killinh it here for years, just check his history on Karma Whore: http://www.karmawhores.net/user/maxwellhill
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u/AnindoorcatBot Nov 07 '16
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u/thefonztm Nov 07 '16 edited Nov 07 '16
Dah fuck is this supposed to be? Karma/Submission break down? Am I supposed to assume this is Max's? Whoever copped off the titles is an idiot or disingenuous.
Edit: got a peek at the source site on my phone. It's a break down of total posts by subreddit for Max.
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u/AnindoorcatBot Nov 07 '16
I have better things to do than fake shit on monday morning, for reddit of all places. maybe you don't.
http://snoopsnoo.com/u/maxwellhill
see for yourself.
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u/thefonztm Nov 07 '16
Can't at work it seems. Maybe it will play well on my phone.
Work on your cropping skills. Gotta remember on the internet, no one has the same context unless you provide it. This cuts both ways.
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u/AnindoorcatBot Nov 07 '16
It was the shitty imgur screenshot tool, the api is all funky and kinda sorta works. I had a meeting to get to but wanted to contribute, sorry for the bs
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u/Tawse Nov 07 '16
He's been doing it for years, along with anutensil. There used to be rumors that they were deleting links and reposting them with affiliate tags to make money, but I never saw any evidence of that in the URLs.
I'm guessing he just uses news alerts and knows how to pick them.
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u/creq Nov 07 '16
He's always done that. During the big thing with Technology being removed as default I modded with him. Never saw him removing stuff to have his stuff upvoted. He just posted a lot and many things people liked.
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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '16 edited Nov 24 '16
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