Someone here said it feels like the sudden spike in China bad shit is an op, I honestly can’t imagine it’s not. That place used to be a fun surf, but holy shit it’s rough atm.

  • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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    3 years ago

    It's not new, they had astroturf bot armies out in full force during the 2016 primary to try to boost Hillary.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      They had bot-armies out on day one. The original Reddit model was to simulate a large active community where none existed, in order to encourage real people to engage and participate until the site could hit a critical mass of users.

    • pooh [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Also during the 2020 primary the front page would be filled with whatever candidate the MSM was pushing at the time. First was Harris, then rat boy, then Warren, etc. and it would stop or shift to another candidate very suddenly.

      It was especially obvious with rat boy. I’d see numerous messages pop up in different threads along the lines of “I find his intelligence and calm demeanor refreshing.”