Multiple subreddits with <5k subscribers are managing to reach /r/all top 100. All of them are anti-Trump, and no anti-Trump subreddit managed to do the same.
171 2017-01-31 by G_Petronius
At the present moment, these are the only submissions from subreddits with fewer than 5000 subscribers on the /r/all top 100:
n. 6 on the frontpage, 4373 subscribers
A few simple questions:
each of these submissions recieved more upvotes than there are subscribers in the subreddit, in some cases over 3x as many (accounting for the fact that they're ~75% upvoted); that's perfectly possible once you reach /r/all and external votes star pouring in, but how did they reach /r/all in the first place?
even allowing that it might happen by a stroke of luck or sudden spike in popularity (for example, thanks to a large subreddit linking to them), how did that happen 4 times in 4 hours (the time difference between the youngest and oldest submission) to 4 different subreddits, all coincidentally belonging to the same galaxy of anti-Trump subs?
the /r/all algorithm was changed so that multiple popular submissions from a single subreddit are penalized while individual submissions from less popular subreddits are boosted: is there an organized effort to flood /r/all by spreading anti-Trump content over many smaller subreddits? and, if so, who is organizing it?
37 comments
n/a modern_fears 2017-01-31
Because Reddit admins want Trump to be impeached. Who can blamne them? He is just a Rothschild/Russian/Clinton pawn. Though, their attempts are futile as getting rid of him will only install the closet homosexual VP - Mike Pence - who will bring back slavery and lynchings for the LGBTQ community and other minorities.
n/a AnIce-creamCone 2017-01-31
YES, the guy that ran against clinton is a clinton pawn. LOL
n/a dylan522p 2017-01-31
Trump supporter, and you can read my history I defend him all the time. There are those who prescribe to the jews are evil theories, his 2 older sons married jews, his daughter married a jew and converted. We have yet to see for the two youngest, but he is very much connected with the jews. Globalist could have planted trump, to do their bidding in the open, or hillary to do it subvertly, but get it either way. I don't believe it, but it's possible.
n/a AnIce-creamCone 2017-01-31
It is the height of intelligence to be able to entertain an idea without accepting it. I agree those connections are suspicious. Time will tell I suppose. I'm not a die-hard, but it was easy to go from socialist to trump supporter after what HRC and the DNC did to Bernie. Then I got hard red-pilled on Obama and the Dems BS.
My point being.. the establishment is trying so hard to stop trump that it is pretty hard not to notice the endless lies. Maybe it's controlled opposition... But I doubt it.
n/a dylan522p 2017-01-31
Yeah k got redpilled that some of my favorite Republicans were plants, but to this day, my boi Rand Paul is still a great guy
n/a AnIce-creamCone 2017-01-31
Repubs are a bunch of shitheads. Trump only ran as one because it's his only option. Hopefully now the fundamentalist republicans and the anti-drug politicians will fuck off.
n/a modern_fears 2017-01-31
Open your mind a bit son. Trump's been friend with the Clinton's for decades. They attended to of his weddings. He donated large sums of money to Hilary's campaign in 2008. Bill Clinton spent many hours on the phone to Trump convincing him to run.
n/a AnIce-creamCone 2017-01-31
Fuck off with the condescending shit. I said that the possibility is there. Possibility or no, I will reserve judgement instead of jumping on a bandwagon.
n/a modern_fears 2017-01-31
Wow, you're a bit wound up aren't you boy?
Where did you say that?
Call BS all yo want mate. This is /r/conspiracy not /r/politics - we speculate theories here, not facts. Now take your meds and hop into bed.
n/a AnIce-creamCone 2017-01-31
Yeah.. Blocked.
n/a AnIce-creamCone 2017-01-31
This is where I said it's a possibility Mr.Asshole.
n/a modern_fears 2017-01-31
Well then, if "the height of intelligence to be able to entertain an idea without accepting it", why are you so defensive towards my ideas? I'm just try to move away from the popular opinion on this sub that Trump is the yanks saviour. Away who runs for office - especially someone who is a billionaire, never done an honest days work in his life, bragged about getting a small 1 mil lone from his dad, a reality tv star, brags about sexual assault, bragsabout ripping off workers, brags about not paying his taxes - does not have the interest of the common man in his heart
n/a KingJames19 2017-01-31
Reddit is no different than legacy media. Same message. Turn off your TV, stop talking politics, and ask bigger questions.
n/a AnIce-creamCone 2017-01-31
I noticed this too. It's obvious and concerted. Welcome to Media Matters, American bridge, democracy matters, and shareblue. The propaganda engine is in full motion. It's surprising how propaganda is coming purely from Corp controlled sources instead of Govt.
n/a fat_osvaldo 2017-01-31
There are no doubt right-wing forces in action as well.
n/a AnIce-creamCone 2017-01-31
Duh. Why bother even saying that?
The sky is blue.
We have always been at war with eastasia ;).
n/a Butt_mugger5000 2017-01-31
Makes you wonder how often they have done it and we haven't noticed...
n/a AnIce-creamCone 2017-01-31
You will always notice if you are paying attention. Just ask yourself "Why is this here?"(Upvote manipulation)
"Who is this written for?"(selection and confirmation bias)
"What is the creator trying to push or ignore?"(writer bias, reader bias)
"Where was this produced?" (NYT/WP/AP/CNN/FOX/Huff etc.)
Read sources on both sides to try to filter bias. Remember to pay extra attention to any fringe ideas getting huge push-back. Where are they telling us to look, where are they telling us not to look, what are they completely ignoring etc etc.
n/a Floof_Poof 2017-01-31
Fringe ideas getting huge push back...pause. What is your point on this particular subject?
n/a AnIce-creamCone 2017-01-31
Uh.. this is /r/conspiracy? Topical and relevant things here are almost always considered fringe in MSM and legacy media and receive push-back. IE:Disclosure/TBTB/Satanism/Pizzagate/False flags/911truth
Whatever.
P.S. leading questions like yours are the new CTR/Media Matter status quo. You are making yourself suspect.... just FYI.
n/a SufferinSycophant87 2017-01-31
Yes, this +100.
n/a Afrobean 2017-01-31
Yeah, obvious vote manipulation. Thanks for compiling info on it to show folks who might not be aware, but this stuff is so commonplace anymore I'm surprised anyone even bothered.
n/a dukey 2017-01-31
/r/bidenbro was routinely hitting the front page. Many of the submissions barely had any votes, then the odd few had literally thousands.
n/a RememberSolzhenitsyn 2017-01-31
We should counter with memes of him getting handsy with kids... Maybe call it "CreepyJoeJustSayNo" lol
n/a UtopiaFrenzy 2017-01-31
I found it most eerie how Biden late last year became the big "sweet" meme right after people were pointing out about his inappropriate behaviour in public around the time of pizzagate first blowing up, it was almost a "LOOK OVER HERE - HE'S A FUNNY GUY!"
n/a thetruthful 2017-01-31
Bro Biden was the first indication of an expanded effort to promote political content in previously (mostly) unaffected subreddits.
n/a dylan522p 2017-01-31
They started with the anti-cop shit long before that. Straight up false images on many non political subs.
n/a godlameroso 2017-01-31
It's bullshit, it'll fizzle because the creep has no meme magic.
n/a mrsnakers 2017-01-31
The thing is he's entirely about power moves and body language. He is simply dominant as fuck and people are primitive and eat it up. "Look at that big shit eating grin and his firm handshake! Look at how serious he looks!" We are fucking animals.
n/a Jk3hybrid 2017-01-31
funny to me... bidenbro became popular around the same time people questioned his affectionate touching of small children. food for thought.
n/a dukey 2017-01-31
Yeah I know, creepy as hell. Seemed to be an astroturf meme sub ..
n/a snowmandan 2017-01-31
Get used to it, it's not very new, it's been like that for a year. It's been really bad since the 20th
n/a photonicphacet 2017-01-31
This title breaks my brain.
n/a ZuluLemon 2017-01-31
I think an arguement could be made that as posts hit a certain threshold and gets bumped to be visible, people that aren't subscribers upvote it. With that said, Reddit put themselves in a position where they lost faith among their consumers. Less than a month ago they manipulated a post from the Trump subreddit to have 0 upvotes, despite having tens of thousands minutes before. This is clear vote manipulation by SOMEBODY. Who? We can only speculate. With Reddit admins and their CEO being outspoken Trump critics, to the point that the CEO itself admitted to editing Reddit comments against Trump, it'd be incredibly naive (perhaps intentionally naive) to pretend they wouldn't also prop up anti Trump posts as a way of promoting their opinion.
For months, Trump's subreddit was criticized for being too polarizing, which I agree with to an extent. Some posts are certainly annoying. However, the anti-Trump subreddits are equally guilty of this and in response to punishing Trump's subreddit for being on the front page too frequently, they've now done the exact same to the other side but without the punishment. If anything, there's signs of helping them.
n/a Coffey25 2017-01-31
looking at one of the mods of antitrumpalliance, I found a subreddit called CTR-corp
n/a Deplorableasfuk 2017-01-31
helps to know the reddit algo's ;) @dbrock
n/a Mike_McDermott 2017-01-31
The manipulation is so obvious that not very many people are going to fall for it. In fact, Ive noticed that people that were probably not pro trump before have had enough of it and are starting to defend the guy a little just because the anti trump shit is so over the top.
The strategy will back fire.
n/a TheOneWhoGrows 2017-01-31
I wanna know how the "this sub is dead" post made it to this subs front page when it was 50% up voted and 20% of the comments have been removed by a certain mod for poiting out OPs post history of anti Trump propaganda. Strange
n/a d3fi4nt 2017-01-31
Reddit's admins should be able to explain and disclose their algorithm - and if they won't... then clearly a more transparently operated alternate is worth seeking out and encouraging others to flock to.
n/a popups4life 2017-01-31
It's pretty well known that the majority of Reddit is left leaning, I wouldn't say there's a conspiracy afoot as much as there are people who don't like DJT and will upvote anything negative. Remember what r/all looked like during the primaries? Pro Bernie anti Clinton covered the front page, during the election it was pro Clinton anti Trump...Why wouldn't it remain anti Trump after election?
There have been a few positive stories, the LGBT one recently and TPP was mostly positive.
But be ready for it to continue, the voting majority on this site will dislike Trump for everything he does.
n/a fat_osvaldo 2017-01-31
There are no doubt right-wing forces in action as well.
n/a Butt_mugger5000 2017-01-31
Makes you wonder how often they have done it and we haven't noticed...