I've been reading up on various methods used to control places like Reddit. Of course it has been widely theorized that Reddit is heavily manipulated by astroturfing campaigns, fake comments, but it is also assumed that the ability to front page certain posts is also not organic.The US government operates so called "counter-influence" campaigns and may be behind upvoting "wholesome" content on Reddit as we speak. Since this forum shares a similar infrastructure I was wondering what kind of similar attacks it faces. What if the cabal was using fake accounts to upvote realy stupid posts on here to discredit us? They could upvote the wackiest conspiracy theories from the stupidest looking websites and then a new potential member would look at us like we're morons. Or upvoting hostile content so we tear our selves apart. What do you all think?
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So was mine. ;)
The enemy is everywhere fren but this is a place of faith, love and community...If you are here you somehow got very lucky! Use your skills and your brain to decide for yourself what is and what isn't. Trust your gut.
We don't come here for votes, we come here for each other and information....this isn't a popularity contest it's a fight of good vs evil! Many brilliant pedes are here..spiritual warriors are here...seek those out and you will become enlightened and emboldened in God and Q's plan..
Blessings....
The media does use the “wacky” conspiracy theories to discredit us. It’s kind of inevitable and honestly shills aren’t even needed for this stuff to be posted. If you’ve made it to this site I doubt you should care about what the media thinks of the movement.
Question: Could they manipulate content/upvotes on this site?
Answer: Yes
Question: If they could manipulate content on this site, would they choose to do so?
Answer: Yes
Are they manipulating/influencing content on this site, the logical answer to me seems, YES. (But I don't know what flavor)
I guess it's a lot to ask for this plucky little forum to stand up to the many state powers that make up our opposition.
No, it is not protected.
So learn to judge posts and messages by their content and not how many internet points it has. And similarly be free to express your thoughts and don't worry about what internet points it receives.
Well when you leave a comment, you automatically get an upvote, dont think it can be manipulated though
It can definitely be manipulated, and quite easily at that. It would probably take me an hour to create a bunch of accounts and use a script that launches a headless browser and down or upvotes every post and comment it can find (or just those with specific keywords).
Completely pointless though. Upvotes don't equate to truth, and downvotes don't suppress ideas. Caring about internet points is just another form of the "appeal to authority" fallacy.