Recent content by Hamish Mac

Any successes we have 100% should not be shared in public. For the failures, they've already incorporated them into the algo, hence why we failed, so I'm not as concerned with those being shared. A good idea to get this locked though, in case someone shouts a proverbial "eureka" in here and...

Same, I posted some comments yesterday using a newish account and the comments with google redirects were immediately shadowbanned. I also posted some other comments yesterday with links to a regular website URL and they were not immediately shadowbanned. However, those comments with links to...

It's not the mods/admins anymore. It appears that they rolled out a new machine-learning algorithm last week. It seems to be able to detect patterns of vote manipulation at a massive scale. There is another thread this week about comments being removed from Reddit. That thread is similar to...

Very interesting workaround. Can I double-check with you - are those new Google re-direct links you have started spamming in the last 1 -3 days? Or are they historic Google links you posted before this clampdown? The fact that they are getting clicks is hilarious! Keen to see if the comments...

If I was to guess generally what is happening, what we are seeing is a result of the new Google & Reddit partnership: https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/expanded-reddit-partnership/ Google wants clean data from Reddit to train it's AI models "Reddit plays a unique role on...

I agree - from reading this thread and the numerous mentions of "comments with upvotes", it appears to me that Reddit have made an algorithmic update that looks for suspicious patterns of upvotes on comments. Would be simple with machine learning for the algo to learn comment upvoting patterns...

Is there any pattern anyone has noticed to the type of links being removed? For example, 3 different link types below: 1) Links where the entire URL is provided as the hyperlinked text (for example commenting "the best is https://www.scoobysnacks.com") 2) Links where a product name is in both...