Essentially the only way to pay your dues in Reddit is to post content apart from your own, and make bunches of comments to prove that you are 'real person'.
That's problematic because content creators don't want to help the competition, and they have real jobs making stuff so don't want to make reddit their part time job.
Advertisement comes with certain guarantees---pay X amount and you get Y amount of impressions or clicks. Becoming part of a community has no guarantee of success, and even once successful Reddit can always turn against you if they view your posting 1 article per day as "spam" because you work for the newspaper who makes the article.
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Essentially the only way to pay your dues in Reddit is to post content apart from your own, and make bunches of comments to prove that you are 'real person'.
That's problematic because content creators don't want to help the competition, and they have real jobs making stuff so don't want to make reddit their part time job.
Advertisement comes with certain guarantees---pay X amount and you get Y amount of impressions or clicks. Becoming part of a community has no guarantee of success, and even once successful Reddit can always turn against you if they view your posting 1 article per day as "spam" because you work for the newspaper who makes the article.