Paid shills everywhere

31  2017-10-22 by das_plant

right now there's a surge of new accounts miraculously reaching the front page whether its a joke, a meme or missinformation, on the front page is an anti trump post sitting at 28.7k 31.4k and counting upvotes from a 11-day account, ok seems normal to most, upon checking his post history you can see multiple posts a day to the typical front page subreddits the last 11 days most if not all with no value added to the thread posted, just vague answers and sentences that provide no insight at all, his longest post was x-posted to ~4-5 different subreddits which is about his impression on Kimi no wa wa, in his post history there is even an inquiry on piracy on how to (in his words) "How do I get illegal passport of the United States of America?" a lot of feeding trolls to spark conflict and every the majority of posts he made have been removed as is standard procedure when "ageing" an account. The cherry on top was his response when I called him out for being a shill he responded with this and a clear search through his history would show random strings of text not relevant to the topic the majority of time, I would like to point out that these new accounts make it to the front page with relative ease and if you couple that with the video removed from /r/videos where a guy was basically boasting about paying his way to the front page and that reddit is compromised... it makes sense with its popularity and simplicity that you can just purchase propaganda advertisement for anything and everything, remember around the time before Archer: Vice came along there were stickied ads all over reddit announcing the return? What about the sudden surge of Rick & Morty posts prior to the sauce being re-released? shills are everywhere and in full force, this website along with other places invaded with cancer would be better off with bio-metrics required for access with a failsafe that would burn your retinas or paralyze your fingers/hand if misused.

tl;dr new accounts that reach the front page are not coincidences, most if not all are paid to reach the front page and push some agenda with the cover that "reddit is filtered in a way that no fake news would really be at the front therefore if its on the front page it must be real"

Edit: more removed posts

16 comments

1  RMFN 2017-10-22

If I'm reading rule 10 right shills don't exist.

1  bradok 2017-10-22

I've found it is more about the word itself and how it is used. Specifically if directed towards an individual vs towards the sub itself. The rule is intentionally vague...

1  RMFN 2017-10-22

It was a slight joke.

1  bradok 2017-10-22

Funny thing is, if one wanted to, they could totally interpret it in that way lol. That's the whole point of shills, IMO. Muddy the waters to where no one knows what's real or not, who is a shill vs a newbie, who is engaging in good faith and who isn't. It is the intentional destruction of Free Speech on the internet.

1  RMFN 2017-10-22

Brilliant point

1  das_plant 2017-10-22

i updated my post with some more vague posts that were removed by him

1  invictus_excelsis 2017-10-22

It's blatantly obvious who that rule protects and who that rules hurts. It should be done away with.

1  RMFN 2017-10-22

Agreed! People should be able to be banned on syntax alone. All of those that I am not to name have the same snark.

1  feedmesources 2017-10-22

Lmao are you for real?

1  RMFN 2017-10-22

100% it should be mods discretion.

1  NONAMEBLANKFACE 2017-10-22

And there's rules enforcing obedience to any mod decision. Any time you respond to a mods post is a 50/50 for getting banned.

1  SnugMeatSocks 2017-10-22

$18 billion

1  ThePatriot131313 2017-10-22

I see it. They are downvoting to negative one as many people with decent information as they can. This someone with a two day old account will post some bogus information and instantly get like 80 upvotes.

1  macronius 2017-10-22

Anti-trump, oh noes, duck and cover!

1  Interpillar 2017-10-22

And who are you? The message you wrote to him is really bad, you should be ashamed. I would ban your account for such a shit. And now you want biometrics? Are you nuts?

1  mideastmidwest 2017-10-22

Your account is 36 days old, and you’re calling out “new” accounts as shills?