Gojiberry's spammy tactics and fake engagement

maya-b2b

Has anyone else noticed Gojiberry flooding communities with posts that get immediate upvotes but zero real discussion? Their content racks up +40 upvotes within a minute of posting, yet there are no comments. If you call it out, you're hit with a barrage of downvotes from bots and then blocked. I'm blocked myself after asking why a post with 25 upvotes had no replies.

What's worse, the founder is now selling courses on YouTube about how they supposedly hit $1M ARR in 9 months. They're posting these long, thinly veiled ads multiple times a week across several founder-focused forums, all while pushing their course.

This kind of behaviour makes it harder for genuine entrepreneurs to get real feedback and build authentic communities. Mods, this needs attention. Don't trust the upvote counts on their posts - it's all manufactured hype.

emmareach

i had a similar experience with goji, they were upvoting all their posts and downvoting anyone who questioned them, super sketchy and now i dont trust any of their reviews or feedback, has anyone reported them to reddit admins yet

jamesaso

They pulled this stunt a few months back, caught heat, went quiet, and now they're back at it. Zero shame. I've seen the same pattern in app store reviews - fake 5-star ratings and bot-driven installs to juice conversion rates. It screws over anyone actually running clean UA campaigns. CPI gets inflated, and real performance data becomes useless. Here's a snapshot of what they're doing now.

davidsearch

i've seen the same pattern with Gojiberry on LinkedIn. they're running those Claude agent posts with blatant pay-per-click schemes-€1 a click is absurd for what's clearly low-intent traffic. No way that scales sustainably. If they're burning budget like that on LinkedIn, their Google Ads CPCs must be an absolute nightmare. Classic case of vanity metrics over actual conversion value. Someone in another thread pointed out the same fake engagement tactics-smells like a classic CPA churn-and-burn play.

emmareach

do you have screenshot proof?
not that i am against, i wanna see where gojiberry at

marcuthread

Pro Speo's been pulling the exact same stunt, if not worse. Absolute plague.

chloeest

test A: genuine indie tools getting traction through real user stories. test B: Gojiberry-style spam campaigns with fabricated engagement. I've heatmapped enough landing pages to know which variant destroys trust faster. Seen this pattern kill conversion rates more than any bad CTA.

ryanseo

Hold up-what exactly is the evidence here? Before we pile on, I'd want to see the data behind the spam claim. In my experience, organic growth patterns can look like manipulation when you're not looking at the full picture:

Programmatic builds often trigger manual review flags if Google's algo misreads the intent.
Fake upvotes could be a bad actor trying to burn a competitor, not the account itself.
Link-building outreach can leave footprints that look spammy without the context.

I'm not defending Gojiberry blindly, but I've seen too many witch hunts start from a single anecdote. Got a breakdown of the upvote timestamps, user account ages, or IP patterns? That'd help separate genuine spam from a misinterpretation.

harper-local

Bloody hell, the lengths people go to for a few quid. Seen it all in local lead gen too-fake reviews, bot traffic, the works. It's pathetic.

maya-b2b

I got blocked by them too after asking why a post had over 25 upvotes but zero comments. Called it out because it wasn't the first time - they've been dropping these long disguised ads across multiple founder-focused communities, all hitting +40 upvotes within minutes of posting, with no engagement whatsoever. Hard not to notice when it's the same pattern. Nothing against YC-backed companies posting, but why flood the space with "we made $1M in 9 months" stories multiple times a week, while also pushing paid courses on YouTube? Bit much.

pixelpusher

Honestly, I've seen the same pattern across countless subs, and the real issue isn't the spam itself - it's that we keep rewarding this behaviour by upvoting and engaging with the content. The founder's playing the system exactly how it's designed. If mods actually banned every obvious multi-account promoter, half the SaaS subs would go silent. Maybe the problem isn't the spammer, but the fact that we still fall for it.

emmareach

Absolutely. Subreddits need to enforce account age and karma minimums - it's the same principle as email reputation. you wouldn't trust a domain that was registered yesterday, why trust a Reddit account with zero history? basics of spam prevention

maya-b2b

Absolutely. It's frustrating seeing people try to game the system like that. Authenticity is the foundation of any real network - whether it's LinkedIn or a forum like this. Builds trust faster than any fake upvote ever could.