/r/political_tweets, run by former /r/MarchAgainstTrump moderators, is openly using their discord to upvote-brigade their posts

359    29 Jun 2017 12:37 by u/G_Petronius *

http://i.imgur.com/2WSch3J.png http://i.imgur.com/EQvvCSo.png http://i.imgur.com/Fk8sMwv.png http://i.imgur.com/jTA5J8n.png http://i.imgur.com/yCJFiSW.png Not that this is anything new: it's exactly what they were doing, also openly, when they ran /r/MarchAgainstTrump: http://imgur.com/a/asqVq Let's all remember that the admins changed the frontpage algorithm and disabled stickies sitewide just because they considered the_donald using stickies to promote posts to be vote manipulation. Later on they re-enabled stickies but specifically limited the_donald's ones, preventing them from ever reaching /r/all. Yet, of course, anti-Trump subreddits are free to engage in open vote manipulation.

28 comments

50 u/xGoldshard 29 Jun 2017 15:41
I really hate T_D but at the same time the anti Trump shitposting sitewide is extremely annoying
17 u/NationalDenbt 29 Jun 2017 17:53
T_D is at the same level as ETS, r/politics and the rest of your standard anti-Trump spam. Marchagainsttrump and this new subreddit are on another level thought. pro-Trump people and anti-Trump people hate them equally because they're so openly scummy.
45 u/Mercedit 29 Jun 2017 19:22
Except T_D can't get onto r/all..
11 u/StupidButSerious 30 Jun 2017 03:48
Yeah what's up with that? Thought they made "Popular" exactly to exclude T_D but even all excluded them wtf
6 u/Kitty_Prospector 02 Jul 2017 21:40
Admin manipulation
1 u/why-this 02 Jul 2017 14:18
Can you explain that? I know they banned sticky posts from T_D, but now they cant get anything on r/all?
4 u/Mercedit 02 Jul 2017 15:10
They can't, Only members subscribed to r/T_D can see them, they throttled the votes at one point, but when they fucked it up T_D was every post on r/all for a few hours.
3 u/why-this 02 Jul 2017 15:27
So they essentially shadow banned the entire sub?
1 u/[deleted] 03 Jul 2017 15:18
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45 u/Tomes2789 29 Jun 2017 18:29
Rule of thumb: when you have to go through this many hoops to spread your message, your message obviously is pretty shit.
31 u/jcy 29 Jun 2017 21:13
11 year badge here. used to love reddit. now i wish for its utter destruction like digg after their homepage redesign.
4 u/_bani_ 30 Jun 2017 02:54
digg needs to be destroyed. what can we do to help?
30 u/lispychicken 29 Jun 2017 15:19
If the admins didnt interfere, this website would be Pro Trump and it's not even close.
5 u/TheVineyard00 29 Jun 2017 16:34
Not true at all. I hate Trump, but I defend him against the retards that spam the frontpage. If said retards didn't exist, I would attack Trump (although much more civilly than they do). I know there are many people on here like this, and there's no way to know for sure which "side" would be more popular.
19 u/lispychicken 29 Jun 2017 16:39
Go into non-default subs (entirely devoid of politics) and see a pro Trump statement and see how many upvotes it gets. there's a huge upswing of his supporters here, but you'd be hard pressed to find it because of how the subs are manipulated. The top subs have some fuckery going on in them and seeing the bot accounts get busted just bolsters my impression.
1 u/TheVineyard00 † 29 Jun 2017 16:41
Pro-Trump statements are almost always controversial. The posts that aren't controversial and are upvoted are usually those complaining about anti-Trump subreddits. People are tired of politics spam on /r/all, but that doesn't mean they support Trump.
18 u/stegasec 29 Jun 2017 16:39
A lot of people don't like Trump but dislike the censorship on Reddit.
34 u/lispychicken 29 Jun 2017 16:43
Oh I get that. But i also wonder how much of the dislike is actually real. I see a LOT of anti Trump subs with lots of upvotes and no comments.. and subscriber counts that dont match activity.
-11 u/stegasec 29 Jun 2017 16:50
It could be the /r/all effect you're seeing there. Without testing, there's no way to know for sure.
2 u/amendment64 30 Jun 2017 11:59
I realize I'm just one person with an anecdote, but the divide is real. people from the city/metro areas generally fucking loathe trump(myself included), whereas my friends from small towns back home fucking can't stop riding his dick. We live in a split country and if you think Trump is overwhelmingly favored or loathed in this country then you haven't really been paying attention
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11 u/jcy 29 Jun 2017 21:14
> don't like Trump but dislike the censorship funny how free speech works. you have to live with other people's expression of opinions rather than suppress them.
19 u/Schozinator 29 Jun 2017 14:09
I don't know if I would consider this vote manipulation but its quite sad that they feel the need to do it
17 u/OrangeDoors 29 Jun 2017 19:59
It's not the upvote-bait title or their discord. They have 5k subscribers. That post has 33k upvotes and is only 61% upvoted. They use bots, there's no other explanation, really.
-1 u/Schozinator 30 Jun 2017 16:05
Yeah I was saying that shouting out on a discord isn't manipulation. Bots totally are though
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1 u/PrinceOfTheSword 29 Jun 2017 23:42
I've spoken with ThatSass on a number of occasions and have been present during his conversations with others. Dude is dumb as fuck. We don't have anything to worry about, nothing those cucks do will change anything.