The speakerphone paradox

[u/NeighborhoodJust1197]

I was at the pool today when a woman started having a conversation on her phone using the speaker.

I politely asked her if she could not use the speaker and pointed to my headphones.
She said, “I don’t have headphones.”
So I said, “You can just hold the phone next to your ear.”

She looked at me with a completely blank expression and said, “I’m on speakerphone.”
I said, “Well… that’s the problem.”

Apparently, we had reached the limits of modern technology.

[u/I_Miss_Lenny]

Yeah it's somewhat pointless. Though as always it can be hard to separate the legit posts from the ragebait.

[u/ColdFreezer → u/I_Miss_Lenny]

If you actually have an unpopular opinion the mods will just ban you or delete your post. It’s a pointless sub.

[u/narf007 → u/ColdFreezer]

Nah it's just like the dinner diaries subs and the aita and aio subs. You go in, post ragebait or clanker stories for engagement, farm karma then flip the acct for real money. Rinse and repeat.

That's all they are is an acct churn forum.

[u/DempsyPrice → u/narf007]

Who is buying reddit accounts?

[u/Degenerate_Traveler → u/DempsyPrice]

I always wanted to know this also. Why?

[u/teffz28 → u/Degenerate_Traveler]

People who want to induce infighting among communities, push for certain things at certain times like controlling narratives, general psyop stuff

[u/r4r4me → u/teffz28]

I just don't get that either. I just can't see someone thinking "This person sounds like a moron but they have 10k karma so maybe they have a point."

[u/Cheap-Honey-3799 → u/r4r4me]

accounts in better standing hit less reddit and sub specific filters. lets bots spam products and other things for longer. thats all i got

[u/Adventurous-Map7959 → u/r4r4me]

Many subreddits will not let you post or even comment with a new account. That can be determined by age (obviously) but also by karma.

My original reddit account was "hacked" . I didn't care for it and the password was "password" - I thought I wouldn't give a damn if I lost it, why would I give a shit? Well, they used it to post in hardwareswap and photography swap or whatever, and in the 8 hours I was asleep, they had 3 people on the line. Only one got a liiiiitle suspicious because all my posting history pointed to Austria and German, and nowhere near Seattle where the scammer claimed to be sending the expensive camera from. Those subs have lists of warnings and still, some greedy fucks were out to get a super deal and getting themselves scammed.

I felt responsible because it was an old, high comment and moderate post karma account that didn't fit the description of a typical scam account, but everything else should have alerted them.

It was out of the scam playbook - pretty good deal but not outrageous, sweetening it even more in privat messages and applying a time limit. (they claimed to need the money this instant for their kid's birthday so they would even conveniently accept all kinds of gift cards)

Some sold accounts likely go to this kind of shit, you probably get somewhat credible accounts in the dozens for a dollar and you only need one greedy sucker to bite...

[u/plastic_alloys → u/r4r4me]

A lot of the less convincing bots will have an account less than a month old and will be easy to spot. The ones with older accounts and a wide-ranging posting history are more difficult to detect. They can stick around longer and help control the narrative

[u/GaptistePlayer → u/r4r4me]

Bro bot accounts are literally over every social media site and have been the last 10 years. The fact you don’t know this is part of why they’re monetized.

[u/mrsjiggems2 → u/r4r4me]

There are subreddits where you can ask for donations or for someone to loan you money but only when you have so much karma

[u/Com_BEPFA → u/Degenerate_Traveler]

Marketing companies for "organic advertising" where people don't know they're being advertised to. Like a couple months ago, when suddenly nobody could stop mentioning how they had just seen The Backrooms (no shade to the movie, but clearly something was going on there, in my feed anyway) for some reason. In completely movie-unrelated subs, always just thrown in with a casual side remark.

[u/AutisticPenguin2 → u/Com_BEPFA]

Or anyone who casually mentions how they just recently happened to win some money on sports betting.

[u/Right_Technology5525 → u/Degenerate_Traveler]

Same! I'm not sure I get it

[u/composedofidiot → u/DempsyPrice]

Yes, we're asking for our friends

[u/SuperPotatoThrow → u/DempsyPrice]

Reddit mods to help them spread their bullshit maybe?

[u/zweigramm → u/DempsyPrice]

The company I'm working for is doing this now. 🙄 They publish video games and want "good accounts" with a lot of karma, because actually their accounts got banned because they don't read sub rules and are posting adverts in different gaming subs...

[u/fauxzempic → u/narf007]

[Picture of crushed up Pringles]

"Just found out my boyfriend is actually 3 kids in a trenchcoat who actually has a wife on the other side of the country and my sister, for whom I'm being her maid of honor has been sneaking into my apartment at night to steal spoonfuls of Cottage Cheese"

[u/Bibble3000 → u/fauxzempic]

ESH

[u/Jemstone_Funnybone → u/fauxzempic]

INFO: teaspoon or tablespoon?

[u/AutisticPenguin2 → u/Jemstone_Funnybone]

And is the cheese cooked or uncooked?

[u/Grizzly_Corey → u/narf007]

You can sell your Reddit account? Omg that’s, terrible. But where?!

[u/akiva23 → u/narf007]

Wait...i can sell my reddit account for money?!?

[u/Cheap-Honey-3799 → u/narf007]

and this one tbh

[u/RevelryByNight → u/ColdFreezer]

That’s what The10thDentist sub is for

[u/OpenAirport6204 → u/ColdFreezer]

My opinion was unpopular which is why I’m perma banned.

[u/SuperPotatoThrow → u/ColdFreezer]

Yep, pretty much.

I no longer engage with text only subs unless it has something to do specifically with some form of writing or story telling. It isn't just unpopular opinion, Aitah or offmychest is a good example as well. Idk why, but those particular subs seem to have the most asshole moderators. They are worthless subs just to post ragebait basically.

[u/Skylord_Hekaton → u/ColdFreezer]

I made a post about how I actually really like the sound of the female TikTok voice (I don't even use it, I just like her voice).

It was so deeply unpopular that they removed my post.

[u/ImDero → u/I_Miss_Lenny]

Any subreddit that requires people scrolling through the popular feed to have read its rules before upvoting is doomed.

[u/Loneliestar → u/ImDero]

I remember having an argument with a mod, I can't remember the sub, because he kept telling me to read the rules. I was like, I did, this issue isn't in the 8 rules on the side. He's not like, not that, the rules FAQ, which is linked elsewhere. To a 60 page document. I'm not lying. 60 pages.

I did a word search for the issue and it wasn't there. I pointed this out and he muted me.

[u/Skithiryx → u/Loneliestar]

Oh, he meant read the Comprehensive Rules. It’s all right there in 315.5b, clearly. Users these days!

[u/cosmitz → u/Loneliestar]

Good mods are literaly gold. After decades in the community management front i can tell you usually only the lower range of mods stick around and consistently show up. They just need to be watched over and contained.

[u/sumjunggai7 → u/Loneliestar]

You were beyond the Pact, but not outside the Directive.

[u/Gosa_on_the_wind → u/I_Miss_Lenny]

Just stand behind the person and carry on the conversation as if the person on the other end is talking to you. If they complain, tell them you thought they had it on speaker so we could all participate. Have fun with the socially inept!