r/conspiracy: On reddit, the difference in political discussion between the week & weekends is the biggest red-flag pointing to US government "social media" manipulation. Two viral threads from the same subreddit. Saturday: actual debate. Monday: vote-brigading & business as usual.

On reddit, the difference in political discussion between the week & weekends is the biggest red-flag pointing to US government "social media" manipulation. Two viral threads from the same subreddit. Saturday: actual debate. Monday: vote-brigading & business as usual.

80 2015-03-09 by [deleted]

+2597 Two men have been arrested over the murder of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov Submitted on Saturday

+3046 Russian President Vladimir Putin has revealed he planned the annexation of Crimea four days before unidentified gunmen appeared in the region. Submitted today (Monday)

The contrast between the comment sections of these two posts couldn't be more different.

Why is it that EVERY weekend, large-scale upvote/downvote brigading suddenly stops, comments outside of the narrative remain visible (even upvoted), and a decent level of debate is allowed to play-out unchecked?

Logically, weekends should actually attract MORE school-aged children and MORE uneducated responses (like what we see during the week).

But somehow, as soon as Saturday hits, we see a dramatic change in the level of objective discussion on hot-button topics like Russia. Almost as if entire TEAMS of people suddenly have lighter weekend work hours as opposed to their full-time "social media commenter" job Monday - Friday.

14 comments

7 KnightBeforeTomorrow 2015-03-09

FaceHammer website, social media persona management team.

http://facehammer.com/about_us.html

Their motto

http://facehammer.com/

Facehammers reddit motto, "Altered the course of history by manipulation of reddit votes"

Example of FaceHammer brigading

http://np.reddit.com/r/conspiratard/comments/2vyuvq/on_911_the_pentagon_was_hit_by_a_grassguided/

Who do you complain to when the brigader/ social persona management teams are mods who are protected from the rules that I have to follow?

5 NightmareOfTheHive 2015-03-09

Wot?

I'm sorry, I clicked on both facehammer links. It's talking about how the Resistance or something will become the Boot of Tyranny tomorrow.

I don't understand how this is social media persona. Neither of the links made sense.

4 lolurwack 2015-03-09

jesus christ their website is fucking awful

1 KnightBeforeTomorrow 2015-03-09

The first (albeit mild) threat is in but I expect much worse IRL. One simply cannot point out such people, but I did.

Yall wish me luck.

http://imgur.com/4t4uglT

3 CantStopWhitey 2015-03-09

We all know that there are paid shills manipulating social media. So don't take what I'm about to say in the wrong way. I understand your point but the first thought someone outside this sub will be something like:

It's just as likely that people want to waste time at work or during work breaks/lunch.

Is there a way to invalidate this possibility? It's important to do a "sanity check" every once in a while to see how speculation holds up versus a counter argument.

4 kit8642 2015-03-09

There are alot less people on the weekend, also those two titles are going to draw different people. One is straight news, the other is biased.

3 -SPIRITUAL-GANGSTER- 2015-03-09

I'm not dismissing your post by any means; remember, there are a lot of redditors with office type jobs who spend 3/4 of their day here.

3 QhorinHalf-Hand 2015-03-09

Shills have weekends off

2 CassiusMethyl999 2015-03-09

yeah now its just fucking stupid in-fighting, at the very top of this subreddit.

2 [deleted] 2015-03-09

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1 [deleted] 2015-03-09

I'm telling you, once you notice it is impossible to un-notice.

1 OWNtheNWO 2015-03-09

Most government employees only work mon-fri

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-1 TotesMessenger 2015-03-09

This thread has been linked to from another place on reddit.

[/r/TopMindsOfReddit] Top Mind sees subreddits are more likely to believe Putin on weekends. Even says "Logically, weekends should actually attract MORE school-aged children and MORE uneducated responses" Doesn't realize believing Putin IS the uneducated response.

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