Whynotyou62 1329 points1330 points 3 days ago

The navy removed all four of my impacted wisdom teeth in one sitting with only a few shots of Novocaine for pain relief. Good times. They also never told me what was in some of the pills and injections I took. Choice? LMFAO!

trailhikingArk 840 points841 points 3 days ago

It's staged. This is bullshit.

Flag tie Cheap token SW hat Cheesy crayola sign Pose SW is cancelling flights due to admin issues not vaccines

Not buying it.

IQLTD 438 points439 points 3 days ago

Also why he's covering his face.

Everyone look at the downvoted user account reply below me and the subreddit he mods. Then look at the other associated accounts.

I'm making a documentary that covers the astroturfing networks on Reddit and how they especially target conspiracy and paranormal subgroups.

One of the few positive takeaways I've had while making this is just how shitty and unimaginative these astroturfing networks are on Reddit.

But, if they had either intelligence or imagination I suppose they wouldn't be doing this. If you've encountered or have been tracking similar groups please send me a DM.

EDIT: that user immediately hid the mod list of the subreddit. Damn!

Oh, wait... we already documented it!

trailhikingArk 37 points38 points 3 days ago

Yes absolutely. Pose, was meant to call that out but I forgot about Reddit formatting. Thanks for making it clear.

Cadmium_Aloy 34 points35 points 3 days ago

One of the weirder ones is the pattern of bots with first and last names.

Good luck on your research. I find the subject morbidly fascinating.

baginthewindnowwsail 31 points32 points 3 days ago

They also target Noahgettheboat and dankmemes, not to mention all the big subs that often make conservatives look bad like pics, publicfreakout, adviceanimals.

Just keyboard warriors that think the best use of their time is to at worst waste someone's time and at best "red-pill a normie."

IQLTD 15 points16 points 3 days ago

Oh yeah--Noah get the boat showed up on my radar immediately. It branches out to a few now-banned subs and a few go back to a network in the ME.

Decent_Cartoonist 7 points8 points 3 days ago

Huge on political compass memes also they like to start accounts off in sports related subreddits. Easy way to establish karma and locality.

TJT1970 18 points19 points 3 days ago

Not tracking but definitely suspicious. I had a feeling some of these post are just not organic.

CloudyTheDucky 1 point2 points 3 days ago

There’s so many inorganic posts of reddit. I saw so many raving reviews of a large, universally hated but on other option internet company under a post asking about other options and got downvoted for pointing it out

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InStride 7 points8 points 3 days ago

The reason they suck is because the operators behind the networks use vendors to be the actual grunts. The people writing content, posting submissions, sending replies are all foreign individuals with OK English that are severely underpaid to follow a script. Then bots boost.

IQLTD 2 points3 points 3 days ago

Yes, first most of them came from the Balkans, then India and Pakistan and now I'm seeing more from former African colonies.

maxwellshmaxwell 5 points6 points 3 days ago

also 4,000 hours at southwest but still an FO? unlikely.

Ok-Yogurtcloset2866 -1 points0 points 2 days ago

very likely, hes probably 6ish years in and upgrade time is 10 or more

nightfox5523 4 points5 points 3 days ago

target conspiracy and paranormal subgroups.

I wonder what those groups tend to have in common lol

WhyLisaWhy 3 points4 points 3 days ago

It’s interesting if you look in to the history of this stuff on Reddit. I think the oldest one I can remember was the power user “Potato_In_my_anus” going around with multiple accounts and pumping his/her comments/posts up along with other power users. Unidan was another scandalous one that got caught doing the same things.

You’d see them in big subs all the god damn time but eventually the admins actually got off their asses and busted it because they can easily see IP addresses.

You’d assume they have more sophisticated technology now to cut down on it but allegedly the site can’t keep up with the bot networks.

superdumb13 4 points5 points 3 days ago

Will dm you later. I used to follow accounts of several users I suspected of being astroturfing accounts on r/Portland and r/politics but I deleted the account out of frustration and needed a social media break. It is fascinating to me.

When it comes to politics they pose as the left and spread apathy. What gives them away is they use the same sloganeering. For example, right now the meme is a variation of “wake me up when something happens” or “may, might, could, tell me when you actually DO something” the phrasing catches on and real users start repeating it for the internet points.

Actually got a 24hr ban recently in r/politics for pointing it out lol.

YaboyAlastar 3 points4 points 3 days ago

I hope /r/doordash_drivers is part of your astroturfing study.

If doordash isn't paying some of the commenters there, I'll eat my hat.

Gunningham 3 points4 points 3 days ago

If he wanted to cover his face, they have something for that.

DervishSkater 2 points3 points 3 days ago

RemindMe! 6 months

Captain_Arrrg 2 points3 points 3 days ago

Did you document the comment as well? They've deleted it.

pazdemy 2 points3 points 3 days ago

How cool! I'd like to follow and support your documentary.

DrZoidberg117 1 point2 points 3 days ago

How can I watch this once it's released? I would need some sort of remind system as well

Decent_Cartoonist 1 point2 points 3 days ago

Doing god work sir.

AedemHonoris 1 point2 points 3 days ago

Keep fighting the Good Fight

The_Great_Madman 0 points1 point 3 days ago

HEY, Can you put my in the documentary, I moderate cool subs too

JoshTheRoo 0 points1 point 3 days ago

There is a lot of fake stuff floating around.

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Harmacc 15 points16 points 3 days ago

Get fucked plague rat.

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Facelessone001 15 points16 points 3 days ago

they're saying they took the screenshot before the moderator list was hidden. how stupid are you to have such a terrible reading comprehension and then proceed to call them stupid?

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Srlancelotlents 8 points9 points 3 days ago

The truth is out there.

Ok_Delay111 -17 points-16 points 3 days ago

He’s hiding his face because he will get attacked over a difference of opinion?

YaboyAlastar 7 points8 points 3 days ago

So you admit antivaxxers don't have facts on their side and only opinions?