Bot defense / Shill counter
22 2017-04-28 by [deleted]
There has been a rash of suppression on this sub lately. To expose the truth I propose an experiment. Leave your comment in this format.
UV: upvote no longer necessary
DV: downvote no longer necessary
To clarify the results i will leave this.
http://www.redditinsight.com/?#trackpost
Now I am expecting to see the post sit at around 50% for the first thirty minutes. And atleast six new obvious prop posts to appear with that time as well. It will then be given the pass or get suppressed harder depending upon the results. If it continues I will expound upon the original experiment to garner the best results.
My current theory based on observation is that this is a bot.
EDIT In the first 20min 4 new shill posts, have been submitted.
EDIT 30min with little to no visibility gained; i have logged that for every upvote, there is a downvote now.
EDIT 2hours in, UV comments reflect the majority. Watching the tracker shows that for every UV a DV is added to balance. However if it encounters multiple UV within a specific amount of time it drops more DV to the nearest specified value. 18 is the current set value.
EDIT Shill posts, have stayed consistent about 4 every 30min.
EDIT One hour of activity http://imgur.com/wk8GFDd
EDIT Almost 4 hours of continued monitoring http://imgur.com/ZVvh31J
Now I can say with absolute certainty this is a conspiracy. Action is required.
EDIT HOUR 7 Because this sub is now compromised, I am resigned to maintaining this post. As it will only continue to serve as proof of concept. If I am targeted specifically there's really not much i can accomplish while the bots persists. What i can say for now is i will continue to update as i gain more information.
Reddit went down last night http://downdetector.com/status/reddit
However i do not believe that this is when they implemented the attack. Unless i was targeted prior to the attack... and they modified it to be a more broad system.
EDIT HOUR 8 To clarify how this began. I had a suspicion that my account was being intentionally down voted. I found this post
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/683nkn/if_we_really_want_to_prove_this_sub_is_being/
I contributed, and decided to help corroborate the conspiracy with this post. Which has been a success.. not sure if i can call it that but oh well. Not the first time I've scrubbed an account, nor will it be the last. Anyway, sifting through the comments on the above post; i found this.
https://np.reddit.com/r/woahdude/comments/1vehg6/gopro_on_the_back_of_an_eagle/cersffj/
Which provides some insight into whats going on. Though this instance seems to be much more advanced than the one that user is referencing.
In the spirit of the experiment i will provide the last 3 hours of monitoring. http://imgur.com/joIOv32 as you can see the trend continues. Given the over all time elapsed and # of votes I'm assuming this has been seen and voted on over 1,000 times. Make no mistake, this is definitive proof of suppression.
41 comments
n/a Ninjakick666 2017-04-28
If you ever see me upvote or downvote anything you know my account has been infiltrated... So I'm gonna opt out of this experiment with a permanent NV.
https://www.reddit.com/user/Ninjakick666/downvoted/
n/a snootsmagoots 2017-04-28
i didnt know this page existed. Ive never downvoted anything, yet my page is full of them. WTF?
n/a Ninjakick666 2017-04-28
I dunno... access to to that info is disabled by default, so most people don't go out of their way to open up their account for viewing up/downvotes. Maybe if yer browsing on mobile ya just randomly hit some arrows now and then by accident... is there any sort of pattern to what is downvoted?
n/a snootsmagoots 2017-04-28
Nah its all random ass crap, even some subreddits i dont go to. Must be from browsing mobile like you said, i do that frequently.
n/a AbortionBurger 2017-04-28
I can see yours, and I can see mine, but if I type any of my alts or my husband's account (basically anything that signs in from my IP) I get a "forbidden" error. Wonder what that means.
n/a Ninjakick666 2017-04-28
You can view your own cause you allowed to and logged into that account... you can view mine cause I specifically went in the options and allowed the public to view my downvotes... you can't view anyone else's unless they also dug thru the options to allow it... which I would guess 99.9% of people have not done.
n/a AbortionBurger 2017-04-28
Ahhh okay that makes sense. Thanks for clarifying.
n/a NorbertH66 2017-04-28
UV
n/a pottempie 2017-04-28
Uv
n/a StrongerTogether1 2017-04-28
Upvoted!
n/a RyanRyanRyanRyanRyan 2017-04-28
UV
n/a BigStoney94 2017-04-28
UV
n/a Putin_loves_cats 2017-04-28
UV
n/a ETEPC 2017-04-28
You've been around the block a few times. What's your take on all this?
n/a Putin_loves_cats 2017-04-28
I haven't put too much thought into it. But, something that pops into my head is that reddit implemented something that will be extremely useful leading up to war with NK, and it may involve censorship and shills.
n/a ETEPC 2017-04-28
I have been.. outspoken on that more than a few times. Definitive evidence aside I doubt this one will ever be brought into the light.
n/a MissType 2017-04-28
UV
n/a Chill_Confirmed 2017-04-28
Uvula
n/a oversettDenee 2017-04-28
DV, just because there isn't any yet, I definitely support this experiment.
n/a MissType 2017-04-28
UVing your DV.
n/a oversettDenee 2017-04-28
UVing your UV notification (:
n/a bananapeel 2017-04-28
UV
n/a bananapeel 2017-04-28
Wow, a huge ratio of UV:DV by the comments. The counter shows otherwise.
Houston, we have a problem.
n/a bananapeel 2017-04-28
4 hours into the experiment. You have some really good empirical data here. Most of the comments are upvotes. But the counter is staying exactly level over a period of hours.
Amazing work my friend.
n/a ETEPC 2017-04-28
Thanks man I've been on RCON for a while, way longer than just this account. I saw that new user trying to make a difference so i decided to help.
n/a MissType 2017-04-28
It's been really interesting following your edits. Do you plan to make a new post with findings?
n/a ETEPC 2017-04-28
I'll have to reach out to some sources before taking any further action. This is big
n/a natureboyblue 2017-04-28
UV
n/a Seeds_of_2nd_Sight 2017-04-28
UV: upvote
n/a AbortionBurger 2017-04-28
UV
n/a mastigia 2017-04-28
UV
n/a OrbisTertius 2017-04-28
UV
n/a MattyMoses 2017-04-28
UV for the cause
n/a IoPA_inOR 2017-04-28
UV to help confuse the humans
n/a Tacofangirl 2017-04-28
UV
n/a heymikeyp 2017-04-28
DV!
n/a Reality_is_a_scam 2017-04-28
Uv
n/a BigManPigMan01 2017-04-28
UV
n/a damn_this_is_hard 2017-04-28
UV
n/a vanquish_islam 2017-04-28
Downvoting for the experiment to count downvotes.
n/a anonymity_ftw 2017-04-28
UV
n/a Black_Floyd47 2017-04-28
UV, thanks.
n/a ArtificialWerner 2017-04-28
UV
n/a bananapeel 2017-04-28
Really nice work. I am continuing to monitor the updates. Is it possible, for the sake of clarity for someone dropping in, that you could change your post and modify it to be in order chronologically?