Right wingers encouraging others to buy upvotes and downvotes on Reddit to push right-wing politics and suppress their opposition.
Genius, how has no one thought of that before? After all, that’s how presidents are elected, by comment upvotes on a Jordan Peterson Meme Subreddit
It’s been going on for years and it does have an effect.
I haven’t been on Reddit in years; did they change the rules? Vote manipulation, or encouraging it, is still an account ban offense, right?
If Reddit catches it
And nazis get a pass bc they drive engagement, so it’s all good for pigboy huffman. Or at least until the media sees it
And this is why I use Lemmy.
Lemmy isn’t impervious to vote manipulation either unfortunately, I encountered someone in a thread earlier who was getting botted, one downvote for every upvote in lock-step with each other. Good news is that Lemmy admins will squish them if you report sussy voting behavior.
Surely that has to be a grift by an upvote farm owner to drive sales
Hell, I’m setting up a vote buying site right now to capitalize on the sentiment. Course I have exactly 0 reddit bots, but hey I can just tell the conservatives that the gay librul mafia has been buying votes too to cancel them out, right?
