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?
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?