Just asking for a friend…
They sell your data and don’t feel bad. Why should you feel bad about selling your data?
You’re not selling your account so they can datamine reddit. You’re selling it so that they can put ads on Reddit that look like a user commenting. Which is also a thing Reddit does.
I’ve been thinking about that, I could potentially get a few hundred dollars.
I don’t feel like I owe reddit anything, but those accounts are bought for scamming and political influencing and spreading misinformation.
I don’t want to be part of that. So I’m not selling my accounts.
The real question is, how much is an account worth and where to sell it
… my friend said.
Morally, no, but it’s against their TOS I think. Fuck em, though.
To push back on that a bit, many Reddit “aged accounts” are used to push scams to the great unwashed masses.
I’m not sure it’s morally okay to turn a blind eye from who’s buying those accounts or why.
It is if its on the Reddit platform. The more dmaage done before their IPO, the better. Spiteful and petty? Absolutely. But because Steve Huffman is the target? Let it burn. Actually, everyone should help pour some fuel on it.
That mirrors the tension many reddit mods struggled with recently… It’s difficult to push back against Reddit without also punishing its active users in some real way.
The folks using Reddit are still real human beings. But I get that not everybody is going to draw the line in the same spot.
It could be anything that makes it worth paying money for the accounts in the first place.
Unfortunately, looking from the outside, it’s difficult to tell if an account has been bought, hacked, or if the original owner just decided to become a scumbag out of nowhere.
For example, have a look at https://www.reddit.com/user/fakerht, a 4 years old account that, just 30 minutes ago, decided to promote a scam site that attempts to steal crypto by luring them with the promise of an airdrop.
It could be anything that makes it worth paying money for the accounts in the first place.
Unfortunately, looking from the outside, it’s difficult to tell if an account has been bought, hacked, or if the original owner just decided to become a scumbag out of nowhere.
For example, have a look at reddit’s /user/fakerht, a 4 years old account that, just 30 minutes ago, decided to promote a scam site that attempts to steal crypto by luring them with the promise of an airdrop.
I think there is no way to delete Reddit PM’s and chats. So the buyer would get your possibly personal correspondence plus whatever private things that other people wrote to you. That can’t be good. I am pretty sure I never doxxed myself in a PM, but other people surely did. I always tried to move discussions from PM to email or self-hosted chat, but people tended to refuse. They trusted Reddit, the silly billies.
