This is the third attempt they’ve made to work with that guy that actually got routed to me because their salespeople don’t do their due diligence. Shocking.

Edit; a little extra context: I have an email alias on a domain similar to one he might use, and regularly receive email addressed to him. Reddit marketing folks reached out in a less cookie cutter manner a couple times last year, this is more of a mailing list outreach attempt.

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    Wait a second. Reddit is reaching out to someone currently in jail because he is suspected to have run a human trafficking ring? And they want to work with THIS dude? Jfc…

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      Reddit is reaching out to someone currently in jail because he is suspected to have run a human trafficking ring?

      “Human trafficking” sounds so much nicer than “rape and enslavement” which is what he’s specifically charged with.

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        This isn’t a personalized email and it’s laid out like a marketing email (600px wide, image header…)

        so I doubt this is a 1:1 BDR trying to contact Tate.

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            I have an email alias similar to an address Tate might use, so my email is on a few marketing lists under his name. I’ve had two actual attempts from Reddit marketing employees to reach out, this is definitely just automated mailing list garbage.

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      He’s everything all the admins, most of the mods, and the only truly welcome users aspire to be.

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      More stonks require more clicks, gotta get that engagement, gotta hold people’s attention, and nothing quite does that like controversial assholes. All profit-based social media inevitably ends up hooked on rage, imo, as it’s the best way to anchor a user’s attention and get more ads in front of them.