01-09-2021, 02:42 AM
Reminder: the users of this sub are seen as cash-cows, as "marks" for clickbait arti
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>The sheer number of low quality click-bait journalism coming out of the crypto space is absolutely mind blowing. There are people making way more money off of your eyeballs and your clicks than they are on crypto. Just be aware of this every time you share, upvote, and click on some dumb low quality article announcing the next milestone has been "shattered", probably written by a bot automatically, and slapped with dozens of ads.</p> <p>We feed into it. It's always a race to submit the first article we can find to this subreddit after a price milestone is met. We get karma! We get moons! We've built bad incentives into the system.</p> <p>Or these are my favorite: "Some dude tweets that bitcoin could hit $200k this cycle!". Yes, it could. But some dude simply making that statement is not news. Even if you slap two paragraphs of bot-generated "content" around it.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/welliamwallace"> /u/welliamwallace </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/kt2bbr/reminder_the_users_of_this_sub_are_seen_as/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/kt2bbr/reminder_the_users_of_this_sub_are_seen_as/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>The sheer number of low quality click-bait journalism coming out of the crypto space is absolutely mind blowing. There are people making way more money off of your eyeballs and your clicks than they are on crypto. Just be aware of this every time you share, upvote, and click on some dumb low quality article announcing the next milestone has been "shattered", probably written by a bot automatically, and slapped with dozens of ads.</p> <p>We feed into it. It's always a race to submit the first article we can find to this subreddit after a price milestone is met. We get karma! We get moons! We've built bad incentives into the system.</p> <p>Or these are my favorite: "Some dude tweets that bitcoin could hit $200k this cycle!". Yes, it could. But some dude simply making that statement is not news. Even if you slap two paragraphs of bot-generated "content" around it.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/welliamwallace"> /u/welliamwallace </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/kt2bbr/reminder_the_users_of_this_sub_are_seen_as/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/kt2bbr/reminder_the_users_of_this_sub_are_seen_as/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R