One thing I've noticed about the anti's

11  2013-04-26 by DataPhreak

I've been checking the history of all of the anti-boston conspiracy commentors here lately. A pattern is starting to emerge.

  • They all have a low link karma, and a disproportionately high comment karma.
  • Of the few links submitted by these individuals, none have ever been submitted to /r/conspiracy
  • Most of their submissions before the bombing that aren't in superthreads like /r/funny are directed at sports and community subreddits.

Just an observation.

EDIT:

Every person who has posted here saying "OOO that describes me!" and keeping the conversation light hearted haven't been agressively anti in their history. Some of them are actually pro even. Like I said, just an observation. The back and forth here is freaking hilarous, though.

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7  Honkeydick 2013-04-26

I found a nest of them in r/AdviseAnilmals, I have never felt a need to comment on a picture there, but I followed a troll to a thread about the BB. I did some ridiculous trolling just started typing indiscriminately. Making shit up left and right. It seems one of them got access to a fake e-mail account I had set up. It doesn't even work anymore, I'm not much on hacking but this dude seemed to know the name I used and the server. It was a friends company email server. Do Mods have access to the e-mails you use on reddit or was he doxing me? If you want to see some crazy shit just go through my comments. This nutty bastard is making sockpuppets for every comment. Reddit is appearing to be completely compromised.

1  DataPhreak 2013-04-26

If he's doxing you, he's probably not a fed. Just a douchebag jock who can put two and two together. Doxing is not l33t or l3t1t. It might be the jester. Theres a whole swarm of pro-america hackers out there who are just troll douchebag jocks. A lot of them have worked or do work in the security industry and actually make it their life goal to dox anonymous. I'm not really worried about getting doxed. If you google dataphreak, you'll find all i really do is play video games and watch pr0n.

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2  theonlydude 2013-04-26

Randy Marsh?

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3  ReptilianShill 2013-04-26

Right....you were eloquently trolling.

http://www.lowbird.com/data/images/2010/04/troll.png

0  [deleted] 2013-04-26

Conspiratard? I'm a geologist, with a hot wife and 4 cars. I'm sure that beats your Xbox , fleshlight, and two pair of semen encrusted pantaloons. I only go into /r/conspiracy[1] [1] to make your comrades my bitches. I have a certain set of skills that makes guys like you delete your comments. I'm more uncomfortable than corn in your pisshole. Most of you bitches that pretend to be smart by using derogatory language are 12 year old multi chin mouth breathers, with pizza pocket permanently lodged between your sweaty ass fingers. You are a fat fuck aren't you? I can tell. You have to poke the fun at random Internet schlubs or you will start thinking about how utterly shitty and fat your own life is. Larking through Walmart fantasizing about under age kids. Yes I know your type bitch. It's sad.

1  knobwrangler 2013-04-26

Wow...

7  MisterProdigy 2013-04-26

I'll come out (controversially) and say I've been anti-Boston conspiracy on here (although I'd delegate my position to "skeptic" of the Boston conspiracy). I have really low link karma because I don't really feel the need to post links on Reddit. Everything important to me has already been posted, and all I do is comment on issues I am interested in. Recently, the Boston conspiracy has been interesting to me (mostly because my friend was there).

So yeah,

  • I have low link karma because I don't have anything to post.
  • I never submit links to /r/conspiracy because I'm not a firm believer in conspiracies, but I understand the appeal.
  • I post in smaller subreddits because you don't have to deal with the constant circlejerk on Reddit, and have just become interested in /r/conspiracy because of the recent Boston Bombings.

Hope you guys can appreciate an outsider's input. I'm guessing a lot of the so-called "anti-Boston conspiracy" posters have the same mindset as me, or at least similar. You guys are honestly a pretty cool bunch, but a lot of you seem to think that everyone who provides counter-arguments are anti-conspiracy or shills (or whatever you guys call them) and it's really intimidating.

edit: I can't bracket stuff for the life of me.

3  ice_cream_car 2013-04-26

This is the same case for me. I don't post often to reddit outside the small subs I enjoy. I don't post to conspiracy because I'm not a theorist or an anti-theorist. I wanted to see new angles and discuss and I've had some good ones.

4  roneman815 2013-04-26

All three of those describe me. Clearly I'm a shill cause I only comment, don't post links here, and only post links about college football.

You caught me.

3  gozerski 2013-04-26

This is very good idea. Can you create some kind of graphic representation when you finish your research ?

There has to be some kind of pattern.

Thank you

2  yrugay 2013-04-26

would you like to know more?

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1  gozerski 2013-04-26

thank you. It was very informative.

1  DataPhreak 2013-04-26

I already did. Here.

1  gozerski 2013-04-26

that's universe. I would like to know more about users and that stuff.

1  DataPhreak 2013-04-26

Reddit does not like spiders for some reason. Its difficult to aggregate data beyond the front page of major subreddits. It is, for lack of a better term, primarily deep web. I think that's sad, because when you step back and look at it as a whole, it is the embodiment of the collective consciousness of its entire user base.

The things that we find most interesting, humanity as a whole, are the most active subreddits. /r/funny /r/politics /r/science. But everybody has those inner voices, and they're all different. Things like /r/conspiracy are a great example. Every human has the paths in their brain for conspiracy. Some of us focus on it daily. Others only when outside sources stimulate that part of the brain, like the media. I give the anti's a lot of flack. I'm also not an active member of /r/conspiracy. But what I see when anti's come here and give people a hard time is not negative. It's positive.

When you present someone with a conspiratorial situation, they exercise that portion of their brain. They take all of the information available to them at the time, and run it against the conspiracy theory, and make a decision. Ultimately, the outcome of that decision doesn't matter. It can be for or against. The results are purely based on information gathered before the processing on the theory began.

But what has really happened here? A person has exercised the critical thinking part of their brain, and stored new information. Ultimately, it is a good thing.

1  gozerski 2013-04-26

But what has really happened here? A person has exercised the critical thinking part of their brain, and stored new information. Ultimately, it is a good thing.

yes

2  LogosFlux 2013-04-26

Got any links?

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1  LogosFlux 2013-04-26

I'm skimmed your comment history- you don't seem to be 'anti-conspiracy' posting in a conspiracy sub...but if you are, my question would be why bother?

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2  TheNewAmericanJedi 2013-04-26

This is my reasoning as well. I have to dig through trash all over the Internet and make my own judgement calls on everything. It's confusing and time consuming, which suggests that the people who have it figured out arent telling others how to see all the information.

3  [deleted] 2013-04-26

Why does anyone screw with anyone else on the internet?

For laughs or "for the lulz". At best, people are bored and get a little thrill out of it; at worst, they really are sad individuals who need to exercise at least a tiny degree of control or influence over others, but I don't think that's the case nearly as often as people would like to think.

1  In-yo-diddly-hole 2013-04-26

people address the issue of conspiracy evidence in different ways. imo it makes sense to disprove it first. if numerous, logical explanations exist then the theory has to be taken with a pinch of salt. if no explanation is apparent then dig a little deeper and see where it does. the reason you will see so much "debunking" and "anti-conspiracy" is because SO MUCH of the material used as evidence to prove a theory is so easily explained with obvious, logical, objective, critical, common sense thinking.

-3  yrugay 2013-04-26

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2  emdefmek 2013-04-26

My monsanto check buys me many toys from bad dragon.

2  Limrickroll 2013-04-26

You're literally describing me, that's not cool man.

0  DataPhreak 2013-04-26

It's a conspiracy. This who post was about you.

1  keepcalmson 2013-04-26

I'm not that familiar with Reddit but I see three different numbers for the number beside one of my posts from a few days ago. When I click context I see 14, on my profile it says -1, and on the thread it says 16. What's up with that?

1  DataPhreak 2013-04-26

I don't know. Also, I notice that some of my posts from months or years ago that are obviously dead are constantly going up and down if i refresh the page over and over again. I think they're just bots.

0  jacquesaustin 2013-04-26

ohh ohh deconstruct my history. me next

0  yrugay 2013-04-26

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2  jacquesaustin 2013-04-26

but i want your anal-y-sis

0  DataPhreak 2013-04-26

Adrenaline Junkie. Decent job. Eats healty.

0  AVLOL 2013-04-26

People commenting on /r/conspiracy post a lot of comments but very few links, and mostly post funny stuff, memes and one-liners... like almost everyone on Reddit. It's almost as if people on /r/conspiracy are average Redditors.

-1  I_d0wnvoted_u 2013-04-26

my main account was banned for daring to not go along with the conspiracy. So what you get is my new account.

2  videodays 2013-04-26

We are all different and we all have different beliefs, but please be respectful of each other.

This is a forum for free thinking - not hate speech.

Without knowing the details, a comment like "daring to not go along" usually reeks of not adhering to the above. The problem is not in which side you lean towards but how you communicate it.

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0  BullsLawDan 2013-04-26

Obviously you're lying, don't you know this sub is all about open minds?

1  I_d0wnvoted_u 2013-04-26

lol