Just asking for a friend…
I wonder who would buy mine? I made a hobby out of getting banned in the most subreddits possible.
I’ve been thinking about that, I could potentially get a few hundred dollars.
I don’t feel like I owe reddit anything, but those accounts are bought for scamming and political influencing and spreading misinformation.
I don’t want to be part of that. So I’m not selling my accounts.
They sell your data and don’t feel bad. Why should you feel bad about selling your data?
Morally, no, but it’s against their TOS I think. Fuck em, though.
To push back on that a bit, many Reddit “aged accounts” are used to push scams to the great unwashed masses.
I’m not sure it’s morally okay to turn a blind eye from who’s buying those accounts or why.
what kind of scams?
It could be anything that makes it worth paying money for the accounts in the first place.
Unfortunately, looking from the outside, it’s difficult to tell if an account has been bought, hacked, or if the original owner just decided to become a scumbag out of nowhere.
For example, have a look at https://www.reddit.com/user/fakerht, a 4 years old account that, just 30 minutes ago, decided to promote a scam site that attempts to steal crypto by luring them with the promise of an airdrop.
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It is if its on the Reddit platform. The more dmaage done before their IPO, the better. Spiteful and petty? Absolutely. But because Steve Huffman is the target? Let it burn. Actually, everyone should help pour some fuel on it.
That mirrors the tension many reddit mods struggled with recently… It’s difficult to push back against Reddit without also punishing its active users in some real way.
The folks using Reddit are still real human beings. But I get that not everybody is going to draw the line in the same spot.
That sounds like giving in to hostage taking.
I feel like it’s more like shooting a hostage to spite the one holding hostages.
Personally I’d prefer not to have someone speaking for me, despite the supposed anonymity of the accounts. If you post any amount of content, it’s likely the account can be linked back to you after the sale, which could prove problematic depending on what the new owner does with it.
But I’m a bit paranoid about such things after experiencing internet stalking. I don’t see anything morally wrong with it, just that consequences from the sale might affect me negatively in the future.
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