Content Is Overrated, Money Talks With Reddit

With an Alexa Rank of 406, the social media site Reddit generates serious traffic.  The problem with the site is that the moderators are overzealous.  They are all on ego trips and way to quick to pull the trigger on so called “Spam” sites.  Even more amazingly, some of the moderators don’t accept links for lesser known blogs.  I know this for a fact since this site was recently rejected.  When I asked a moderator why it never showed up in the new section, they replied that I should only submit well known sites???  Hey buddy, If I wanted well known sites I’d go directly to ESPN, CNN, and read all the other mainstream sites.  Why would I even utilize a service such as reddit which is intended to drive up the best stories based on subcategories through users upvoting good content?  And here’s where this story begins….

The best content gets upvoted and ends up at the top of the site, right?  Not anymore!  Reddit has shopped the top spot for the individual/group who wants to spend the most.  For example, if you have 25% of the total pool for the day your advertisement will appear at the top slot for 25% of the day.  There is a minimum of $20 and only the main page is available so far (no subreddits).

So what do you think about shopping the top spot?  My opinion is that its good for one thing – the jerkoff moderators won’t be able to control the top spot because money talks.  I guess at this site content is overrated.

On a closing note, you can bet I’ll be throwing my money into Reddit ads at some point.  And we plan to throw some crummy content out there to get the redditors buzzing!  I can see the comments already:

Reddit use to be great, this story is down voted

via techcrunch

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