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> I strongly suspect this only works because it's not a widely-known strategy

I think this post in combination with HN users' comments indicates that this is a widely-known strategy. It's cool. I've been doing it too and didn't know that everyone else did it too. Reddit is already being secretly advertised on but I guess we'll see how things end up.

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Sure, but "widely known on hacker news" is a very different bar. :) Really, the question is, "is it a widely known enough strategy that there's big money to be made subverting it?" And as soon as the answer is "yes," the battle will be on between spammers trying to fill Reddit with low-quality info and Reddit trying to keep them out without hurting legit users.

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