The way it works is they astroturf threads immediately in /new and then brigade the properly manufactured ones without wrong think top comments into visibility and bury any competing threads of a similar nature that have failed to be manipulated. That's why when the isis leader was killed under trump only threads without Trump in the title were allowed to rise to the front page.
They literally openly talk about faking it until the site started making it. They have been astroturfed since day zero. The fringe minority are the meat space dwellers that aren't paid by click farmers and instead gulp down the tard Kool aid happily.
People love saying these comments are from bots.
Hate to tell you, but 90% of those comments are real lunatics.
I disagree.
I've seen average upvotes fall off dramatically due to Reddit banning real people.
Here's a screenshot I just took of /r/videos- https://files.catbox.moe/xfwcq9.png
The Johnny Depp video made it to /r/all and is still in 15th place on the Hot list a day later (which means no views once it fell off the front page).
Meanwhile, most of the videos on /r/videos are only getting 5-50 upvotes these days, tops.
Or Bots influencing Bots
I can go with that
The way it works is they astroturf threads immediately in /new and then brigade the properly manufactured ones without wrong think top comments into visibility and bury any competing threads of a similar nature that have failed to be manipulated. That's why when the isis leader was killed under trump only threads without Trump in the title were allowed to rise to the front page.
They literally openly talk about faking it until the site started making it. They have been astroturfed since day zero. The fringe minority are the meat space dwellers that aren't paid by click farmers and instead gulp down the tard Kool aid happily.