I fucking love it. R/baseball is, oddly enough, one of the most cucked boards on reddit. My main has been permabanned there for several years (despite me using alts to post the spicier stuff), and just had another account banned there yesterday. Honestly those people are absolutely insufferable and reading their meltdowns over this made my day.
Now don't get me wrong, while I'm glad they caved and changed it back, even changing it in the first place still means they're cucks who you shouldn't ever give any money to if you can help it.
I go back and forth on the level of astroturfing on plebbit. Obviously many mod positions on important boards are compromised like you say, that's a given. But take r/baseball for example, the comments are usually giga cucked. But a few times over the years it's been as if a switch was flipped and the astroturfing bot farms were off for the day and tons of normalcy shines through in the comments. It's kind of eerie.
Those of us that were on reddit the day Hillary Clinton got chucked into a van like a side of beef remember when all the politics bots stopped while they waited for marching orders.
They definitely do. I had an account banned from r/soccer for providing a bunch of recent examples of left wing terrorism in response to some dumbass who claimed right wing terrorism is the only real threat to the west.
Within two minutes, I was perma-banned and the moderator comment was something like "fuck off fascist"
Look at how effective taking key forums and subs has been on convincing Americans that Europe is this magically place of no-guns and free healthcare and college and wonder. And that Canada is the "Better America" with politeness.
All it took was controlling a couple news boards to enact actual major cultural shifts like that in barely a decade. Why wouldn't they do that elsewhere?
Almost every “nonpolitical” major sub is controlled by leftist activist mods. r/hockey and r/bourbon are extremely leftist in their moderation and as a result, have curated most users into either being vocal leftists or forced to hold their tongues.
It really is sad to watch the self feeding cycle happen in real time. Cucked mods force people out which makes the place more cucked which makes more people leave etc etc.
Agreed but MLB, like a lot of the big sports leagues and media companies, has such a monopolistic stranglehold on their market sector that you need legal action to break them up. Simply "don't consume" won't be enough, even though that's always a good idea.
MLB is a lot more susceptible to fan pressure because individual team revenue is more dependent on gate receipts than most leagues.
MLB lacks big money from national broadcast deals. Baseball is a very regional sport with no national audience for anyone except the Yankees. Their once venerated TV institutions of Sunday & Monday Night Baseball along with the World Series, are completely dead from a ratings perspective.
MLB was an early adopter to the online streaming gig for live sports, but they went and sold their proprietary platform to stream their games to Disney for a one-time payout to all the teams.
Teams to this point have been coasting along by signing unsustainable mega local broadcast deals with cable companies, but those days have ended. Sinclair, who bought the rights to numerous teams, has defaulted on their deal and has simply stopped paying the bills.
There is some revenue sharing with the poorer teams, but the bigger markets are banned from receiving central relief funds.
So this leaves gate revenue as a major source of revenue for most teams. They will feel it directly it there is not enough butts in seats for 81 games a year.
The main problem is that normies and NPCs love their sportsball.
Something to do with Trevor Bauer was actually how my main got permabanned several years back. Wasn't about the recent accusations, something before that that I dont even remember at this point. Basically some soyjak brought up politics on the post so I responded with politics. They have a no politics rule, but oddly enough only one of us got banned for it. Funny how it works.
Maybe it was when some dumb bitch posted a dumb derogatory comment on Bauer's Twitter, then he answered back.
Then she got all butthurt about being called out, so she accused him of stalking her online and harassment and the whole white knight Internet came to her defense.
My position is facts/compassion. Your position is politics.
That’s how they justify it. This happens occasionally on hackers news, but there are enough smart people there to explain that point without tipping their hand and saying the naughty words. Inevitably there are some too dense to get it, though, and insist their way is moral absolute truth.
A couple years ago, I thought about how I would effectively control Reddit with bots, if I had the opportunity, and I decided that sport subs would be a great place to farm karma and comments, while looking just like a human.
The way I imagined it, you would have networks of bots, say 20-50 active accounts, that act autonomously most of the time, posting pointless comments and memes. You'd then have one or more operators on these accounts, who occasionally take them over to agitate - posting highly inflammatory comments and attacking non-prog comments.
Sports subs make a great location for farming, because you need almost no input to have long comment chains where words are written, but no new information is exchanged. People can go on and on, regurgitating the same known facts about ref calls and player records, back and forth, in ways that bots can very easily understand and replicate. Hell, most of that is probably already in machine-readable databases created by sports autists.
I wouldn't be surprised if fewer than half of /r/baseball's users were actually human. It certainly wouldn't be if I were a bad actor.
I fucking love it. R/baseball is, oddly enough, one of the most cucked boards on reddit. My main has been permabanned there for several years (despite me using alts to post the spicier stuff), and just had another account banned there yesterday. Honestly those people are absolutely insufferable and reading their meltdowns over this made my day.
Now don't get me wrong, while I'm glad they caved and changed it back, even changing it in the first place still means they're cucks who you shouldn't ever give any money to if you can help it.
I think reddit goes out of their way to make distinctly American boards as soy as possible. Probably hand-pick the moderators to do so.
/r/nascar is like this too. Full of bubba wallace stans and people who look down on the "rednecks" who are the actual fanbase.
I go back and forth on the level of astroturfing on plebbit. Obviously many mod positions on important boards are compromised like you say, that's a given. But take r/baseball for example, the comments are usually giga cucked. But a few times over the years it's been as if a switch was flipped and the astroturfing bot farms were off for the day and tons of normalcy shines through in the comments. It's kind of eerie.
That is when the contracts are being renegotiated
Bot farms need their cash flow.
Those of us that were on reddit the day Hillary Clinton got chucked into a van like a side of beef remember when all the politics bots stopped while they waited for marching orders.
They definitely do. I had an account banned from r/soccer for providing a bunch of recent examples of left wing terrorism in response to some dumbass who claimed right wing terrorism is the only real threat to the west.
Within two minutes, I was perma-banned and the moderator comment was something like "fuck off fascist"
Look at how effective taking key forums and subs has been on convincing Americans that Europe is this magically place of no-guns and free healthcare and college and wonder. And that Canada is the "Better America" with politeness.
All it took was controlling a couple news boards to enact actual major cultural shifts like that in barely a decade. Why wouldn't they do that elsewhere?
Almost every “nonpolitical” major sub is controlled by leftist activist mods. r/hockey and r/bourbon are extremely leftist in their moderation and as a result, have curated most users into either being vocal leftists or forced to hold their tongues.
It really is sad to watch the self feeding cycle happen in real time. Cucked mods force people out which makes the place more cucked which makes more people leave etc etc.
Agreed but MLB, like a lot of the big sports leagues and media companies, has such a monopolistic stranglehold on their market sector that you need legal action to break them up. Simply "don't consume" won't be enough, even though that's always a good idea.
MLB is a lot more susceptible to fan pressure because individual team revenue is more dependent on gate receipts than most leagues.
MLB lacks big money from national broadcast deals. Baseball is a very regional sport with no national audience for anyone except the Yankees. Their once venerated TV institutions of Sunday & Monday Night Baseball along with the World Series, are completely dead from a ratings perspective.
MLB was an early adopter to the online streaming gig for live sports, but they went and sold their proprietary platform to stream their games to Disney for a one-time payout to all the teams.
Teams to this point have been coasting along by signing unsustainable mega local broadcast deals with cable companies, but those days have ended. Sinclair, who bought the rights to numerous teams, has defaulted on their deal and has simply stopped paying the bills.
There is some revenue sharing with the poorer teams, but the bigger markets are banned from receiving central relief funds.
So this leaves gate revenue as a major source of revenue for most teams. They will feel it directly it there is not enough butts in seats for 81 games a year.
The main problem is that normies and NPCs love their sportsball.
Must be something about baseball itself that attracts the pozzed.
I used to visit many baseball sites of different stripes, some dating back two decades.
They are all pozzed now, even the ones filled with actual boomers and grandpas.
They sneer at the unjabbed and love Biden and the troons.
I haven't been back to r/baseball since Trevor Bauer first got falsely accused, because I couldn't take the moralfagging anymore.
Something to do with Trevor Bauer was actually how my main got permabanned several years back. Wasn't about the recent accusations, something before that that I dont even remember at this point. Basically some soyjak brought up politics on the post so I responded with politics. They have a no politics rule, but oddly enough only one of us got banned for it. Funny how it works.
Maybe it was when some dumb bitch posted a dumb derogatory comment on Bauer's Twitter, then he answered back.
Then she got all butthurt about being called out, so she accused him of stalking her online and harassment and the whole white knight Internet came to her defense.
Maybe. The white knighting during that incident was unbearable. Love that he clapped back at that bitch.
My position is facts/compassion. Your position is politics.
That’s how they justify it. This happens occasionally on hackers news, but there are enough smart people there to explain that point without tipping their hand and saying the naughty words. Inevitably there are some too dense to get it, though, and insist their way is moral absolute truth.
A couple years ago, I thought about how I would effectively control Reddit with bots, if I had the opportunity, and I decided that sport subs would be a great place to farm karma and comments, while looking just like a human.
The way I imagined it, you would have networks of bots, say 20-50 active accounts, that act autonomously most of the time, posting pointless comments and memes. You'd then have one or more operators on these accounts, who occasionally take them over to agitate - posting highly inflammatory comments and attacking non-prog comments.
Sports subs make a great location for farming, because you need almost no input to have long comment chains where words are written, but no new information is exchanged. People can go on and on, regurgitating the same known facts about ref calls and player records, back and forth, in ways that bots can very easily understand and replicate. Hell, most of that is probably already in machine-readable databases created by sports autists.
I wouldn't be surprised if fewer than half of /r/baseball's users were actually human. It certainly wouldn't be if I were a bad actor.