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kleinbl00  ·  3181 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dear hubski, when do you feel the most powerful?

So funny story.

I now know more about the dark arts of SEO than I should. I also used to moderate a default.

Here's some evil shit. That, right there, is pretty much the command line interface of "what's trending on the internet so I can cash in on these hashtags and search terms". It's not mine; that's the demo version you're supposed to build out and host yourself (I have).

Click the "trending" tab. Look at Column J. I saw something in there from a subreddit I moderated that I happened to know violated our rules. So I opened another tab and removed it. Then I refreshed the spreadsheet.

Yup. It was gone. Just like that. FOR EVERYBODY.

It felt like staring into The Matrix.