They're called "slide threads". Shills post them to try to drown out legitimate topics, since over time less popular threads drop off the bottom of the list.
There were a lot of them when people were investigating the evidence for election "fortification". You can probably guess why.
This. I've heard people are trying to use bots to automatically do this as well, with certain keywords triggering them but I have not seen any definitive proof of that.
4chan was organic discussion before maybe 2014 but since then it's been astroturfed just as much if not more than Reddit has.
They're called "slide threads". Shills post them to try to drown out legitimate topics, since over time less popular threads drop off the bottom of the list.
There were a lot of them when people were investigating the evidence for election "fortification". You can probably guess why.
This. I've heard people are trying to use bots to automatically do this as well, with certain keywords triggering them but I have not seen any definitive proof of that.
4chan was organic discussion before maybe 2014 but since then it's been astroturfed just as much if not more than Reddit has.