Reddit adds ability to create your own “Reddits”

Social news site Reddit has launched, in closed beta, the ability for users to create their own “reddits”.

They plan to spend a week or so in a closed beta and will invite a handful of users to play around with the new feature so we can see how things work before we open it up to everyone.

You will be able to make three kinds of reddits: public, restricted, and private. A public reddit is just like the current reddits: anyone can view and submit to them. A restricted reddit allows anyone to view the content, but only invited members may submit, comment, or vote. A private reddit is like a restricted reddit, but with the additional restriction that only members can view the content as well. Moderators of a reddit will be able to remove posts and ban users from their reddits.

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Rudy Giuliani’s Google ads come under fire from the Reddit mob

 

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Earlier today at Reddit the users decided to abuse Googel Ads and play around with the conversion rate for Rudy Giuliani’s paid ads on Google. How many Google clicks does it take to become president?

Thousands of people clicked on the Google ad before it was pulled off Google.

Redditers asked everyone to click on Rudy Giuliani’s paid ads simply because they cost him money.

Although unethical and pointless it does show the weakness of Google Ads. Click an ad, and there goes a couple of dollars. Turn it into a meme or a viral joke and thousands go down the drain, together with the entire idea of click-based ads.

Google continues to try and stop click fraud but this event shows how open to abuse the Google ad model is.

 

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