https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/78fbs6/user_spots_russian_troll_farm_in_action_in_real/
Excerpts from top threads:
"Link is wrong, should be ... "
"Thank you much. It's far too early for me to be so confused when reading something. Edit: Nope. Still confused"
"Have you spotted the comment? This is confusing as all hell"
"How does this post have 11k upvotes if nobody knows what comment we're supposed to be fucking reading?"
"Can someone explain exactly what this post supposedly proves and how a Russian troll farm is at all involved?"
"I'm very confused as well - the user points out that the comment relies on speculation but I don't see the connection to Russian troll farms"
"Am I missing something? It just looks like the same old redditors regurgitating what they heard other people say. How is this Russian trolling?"
I hope this confusion will be a self-served red pill at least for some of them...
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[–] ovix 0 points 17 points 17 points (+17|-0) ago
Nobody's upvoting shit on reddit, some fat slug cunt opens up a pretty UI and punches in a number from the top of her head
[–] [deleted] 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
[–] mudcatca 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Shills or Admins? Oh, sorry, same thing
[–] derram 1 point 3 points 4 points (+4|-1) ago
https://snew.github.io/r/bestof/comments/78fbs6/user_spots_russian_troll_farm_in_action_in_real/ :
This has been an automated message.
[–] 10877626? 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago (edited ago)
Thank-you, I was just thinking how awful reddits mobile interface was
[–] mudcatca 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Modern version of a Red Scare, minus testosterone
[–] Improbablyanasshole 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
No they didn't, those numbers have been fluffed up for a long time, they increased by x10 overnight sometime last year but your average user is too stupid to notice or care. Obamas ama was record shattering at 20k up votes and that site has been losing traffic since then. Give me a fucking break. How can so many people be blind to the blatantly obvious manipulation, were so fucked.
[–] DoctorMisterHoppe 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I think more people than you think are catching on to it, but they're getting silenced all over the place. Remembr the guy talking about crime rate differences along racial lines who got upvoted to the top before his comment was mysteriously deleted and the thread locked?
[–] Improbablyanasshole 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Ya it sounds familiar, I may have heard about that here. I haven't used Reddit much since the FPH ban over 2 years ago. There's been so much shady shit since then that I have no faith in its current user base.
[–] Cheesebooger 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Reddit is a (((CIA/Mossad))) operation
[–] o0shad0o 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
the comment that should've been spotlighted
context
[–] Russiandude [S] 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
I was not originally going to discuss the text itself, just the funny behavior of redditors. But looking at the comment I don't think it's "bestof" material either. Russian propaganda does exist (although it is much smaller than the CTR). Heck, it can be argued that I'm a propagandist. I'm not paid by anyone to do this job though, nor I hide my biases, but I do write in foreign language on a heavily-politicized forum. But that comment does zero effort to prove or uncover said "trolls". In fact, from the point of view of Russian propaganda, "Browder's ban was an automatic error" is less favorable than "it was a conscious decision". The latter means "someone else besides us is convinced that he's a genuinely bad person", while the former is zero.
[–] o0shad0o 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Sure. I just wanted to post some quick references to the basis of what was being talked about.
[–] DoctorMisterHoppe ago
Lot of people just upvote without actually clicking the link. That and actual shills. Wouldn't shock me if actual Russian trolls ARE involved, just for the lulz.