very super organic trump tariff posting
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this is taken from a subreddit for the computer hardware enthusiast youtube channel gamers nexus (to my knowledge their approach to reporting on the tariffs is "they exist we might see prices go up" - very little editorializing)
it is not a sub that gets used much with posts rarely hitting even double digit replies let a lone triple digit
yet two posts about the trump tariffs get many times the normal amount of replies
Yeah, that's sketchy as hell. If people were that politicized and anti-Trump, it would be bleeding through into all posts, not just two.
I decided to look into the users in these threads
the esporx user is a bot that just posts links all day every day to thousands of "subs"
it never makes comments itself
the throwaway account was made 4 years ago makes the odd post about some tech related thing (buying ram chips) with multiple months between posts
and then it has suddenly decided to be very anti tariff
going through the comments some of these users do not appear to have posted in gamers nexus before (one i saw posts almost exclusively in a subreddit for german trannies but it just decided to post a comment in this niche tech youtuber subreddit) is there a way to see a breakdown of a users post history by sub?
found one https://reddit-user-analyser.netlify.app/#RailgunDE112
absolutely no history of posting in GN
Many such cases.
To be fair, sounds like my Reddit account...
...if I'd sold it or gotten it hacked at some point.
I get irregularly posting. At this point I basically use Reddit for tracking video game sales, and rarely comment. Out of curiosity, I checked: One week, two months, four months, five months, six, eight, ten, etc. EDIT: Hahaha, my first page goes back two years.
But if you suddenly change and get more political in one direction, that means that account was scooped up by some actor to push an agenda.
That's not always malicious, but generally means they got some link from an outside source, yeah.
This is botting and brigading.
I think so, but I'm not familiar enough with it to pull that off the top of my head. Search it out if you're invested, I think I remember there being some way to pull that data.
When you hate capitalism but still must consoom product
What, you mean that suddenly getting 200x times the comments and upvotes of everything else isn't natural?
Next you'll tell me that Kotaku and CBS are biased sources too.