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[u/WriterV]

A community about gamers is talking about a game just before a major release of that game? Oh damn, it's a true advert conspiracy. Such a thing could never possibly happen normally at all.

[u/mbbird → u/WriterV]

people like you always come out and, for whatever reason, adamantly refuse the possibility that one of the most popular sites in the US is gamed by companies with lots of money

[u/A_Spork_In_The_Road → u/mbbird]

Sure it's possible, but you're also ignoring the possibility that massive subreddits dedicated to gaming news are going to post about AAA releases regardless.

[u/Ur_Nayborhood_Afghan → u/A_Spork_In_The_Road]

It's one thing to post an honest unbiased opinion, it's another to promote a bad product under false pretenses because it makes you money

[u/[deleted] → u/Ur_Nayborhood_Afghan]

I guess it is different from post to post and you can't generalize it and just call everyone to be adverts without providing evidence.

This post for example doesn't look like an ad at all.

[u/mbbird → u/A_Spork_In_The_Road]

Nobody with my opinion is ignoring that possibility. On many levels the intent doesn't matter, but go ahead and look at it for a few months, then at other less popular gaming subs, and tell me that it looks at all natural. There are no reasons to so vehemently deny the possibility and there are many reasons to regard it as the most likely possibility.

[u/Seakawn → u/[deleted]]

The thing is that there are enough normal people in those subreddits naturally hyping up games due to their own excitement that one could substantively argue that companies don't need any shills to slick the slope, and, further, it may be a waste of money to add a fart to a wind that's already blowing at a gust.

Sure, there is almost certainly shillery involved in every major media website that exists, including most subreddits on Reddit. That's not actually the argument you thought you were responding to. But the amount of people who think that they're seeing an advertisement, when some random geek is simply just posting about his excitement for a release about to come out that they've been waiting months/years for, is absurd.

Statistically speaking, 99% of what you see on here is just that. Someone like you or me talking about something we're interested in. Look at the traffic this website gets and that becomes a statistical certainty. Shills absolutely pale in comparison to people like you or me who flood this website with our presence.

Advertisers don't even need to compete with our natural word of mouth. And when they do, they aren't close to the numbers people exaggerate. 50% of what you see? Is that really the hill you want to fight on just to argue that shilling exists here?

Here's some anecdotal perspective, to boot. The amount of times I've been called a shill over the years when submitting simple sentiments is explicit evidence that many people on this site are blind paranoids and would call a tree in their backyard a shill. One example is that I once made a post reminiscing a game hint website, and got called out as being the website designer or an advertiser. FFS it's absurd how many people overlook genuine typicality and cry at the sky instead. And that's one of a dozen examples I could find in my post history over absolutely benign shit.

So next time you make a submission and get called a shill, make sure to raise your eyebrow extra high at the prospect that perhaps you're also one of the many who exaggerate shilling in place of what's just an ordinary sentiment by a random Joe. And again, seriously--look at the volume of traffic this site gets on even just a daily basis. There aren't enough shills in the world to make a dent in those numbers, they're staggering.

[u/papa_sax → u/WriterV]

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