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RE: Here is how to manipulate Reddit posts in your favor(on a basic level).
Corporations take advantage of this the most, and the Reddit admins know about it and let it happen. You can actually pay someone running a service to get your post to the front page, and this happens every single day. All of the content is manipulated and artificially elevated/dropped. A big indicator of this is the glorification of the military and Obama/Biden - one look at r/politics should tell you all you need to know about how absolutely fake Reddit is now, and how much of a joke it has become.
It's a shame that I can't use reddit for reliable news. I like the quick access and search tools over traditional forums, but it's a pay to play environment for sure.
Yes sir! That is very true. A lot of the mods in the bigger subreddits are paid staff of news organizations or part of political campaigns. They also submit their own links to reddit with regular usernames and upvote them to get more views.