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Reddit Is Letting Power Users In on Its IPO. Not Everyone’s Buying::Reddit says it wants to reward users by letting them buy into the company’s public listing. Some say it’s too risky—others say they won’t pay a company they’ve already given hours of free labor to.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

they gave me the option, but I'm not in the US so I couldn't even do it if i wanted. so why they even asked me to is beyond me. it's just bs.

"hey.. wanna buy our stuff?"

"yes"

"oh you're not from the US. sorry."

"but you knew I'm not from the US"

"meh."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

what if we edit our old posts to random junk to mess up the ai

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

a lot of people do. there are greasemonkey scripts for it. some scripts even only delete certain old posts after a certain date so reddit isn't picking up to it quickly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I deleted all my comments in June, still got an invite.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Hey those one guys went to the moon, why not me too hur dur

-Spez probably

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I received the email yesterday despite having deleted my account. I rarely if ever delete emails. This was a first in many years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I am not American tax payer but what does American government and independent organisations do regarding influencers are being bribed to help a high profile IPO?

E.g. a user will have 200K+ karma and thousands of followers and will get pre IPO share. So, will "duckyduck" will sure sit on a corner and will never try to benefit his stock? They won't post to wall street bets? Because of ethics?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I got a message from them today and I haven't used reddit since last June or so. They must be desperate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I'm in exactly the same boat. I was tempted to buy exactly one share to gamble with, and then I thought about their monetization efforts and the fact that they're offering shares to a person who deleted every comment and post they ever made.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Same here. Quite bizarre too, since I'm not even a US citizen so I'm not even allowed to buy in. And surely based on their user data Reddit should know that...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Just fill in the form anyway with fake data. I did it.

So they're going to send many useless invitations.

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