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3 of Michael's comments in this thread · View thread on Reddit ↗

u/hello-codesmith wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

Alina from Codesmith here. Thank you so much for recommending us!

u/michaelnovati replied ·
Commenter above is likely a fake paid account. Note the UTM params in all their CSX links (a dozen or so across Reddit) and no UTM params in their other links. These are advertisement tracking params that are not automatically added by Reddit ever and had to have been explicitly added.

u/maynecharacter wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

Wow, that’s not the case at all and I didn’t notice. I’m currently relearning javascript using CSX, and it’s been really helpful for me, so I’ve been sharing my experience. I probably grabbed the link with the parameters by mistake from somewhere else.

u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Reddit doesn't add UTM params to anything so wherever you got it from was someone including tracking for marketing purposes. Codesmith claims that they have no control over the Codesmith subreddit (which is the one referenced in the UTM params) so something doesn't add up: The params are explicitly referencing the Codesmith subreddit and not only that but you shared the exact same UTM params in a dozen or more places across Reddit. If you were sharing it genuinely you would probably have clean links or different links each time. You might just got o CSX and copy paste the clean URL for example, or you might link to specific exercises have different params. So if you accidentally did this, then you kept copy pasting your same comment dozens of times and changing it a bit, which violates Reddits ToS against mass commenting.

u/maynecharacter wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

Wow, that’s not the case at all and I didn’t notice. I’m currently relearning javascript using CSX, and it’s been really helpful for me, so I’ve been sharing my experience. I probably grabbed the link with the parameters by mistake from somewhere else.

u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
Went through and couldn't find any links in the sub (I might have missed it) that had those UTM params, including links shared by Codesmith staff. I found variations of your own links directly to specific problems that YOU SHARED that still have the same UTM params. It's not adding up still and this looks like evidence of astroturfing.