Ah yes because a whole four (4) users clearly proves Le Russians are manipulating this sub. Their obviously just karma whoring anyways.

Compared to the hundreds to sometimes thousands of blatant ass shills that popped up around Pizza gate that started screaming about how the government are totally not corrupt guyz! And trying extremely hard to take over this sub and replace the mods. I still remember that first brigade. It was absolutely fucking ridiculous.

And now they are doing it again here and """Proving""" Russians are manipulating this sub because they found 4 dudes reposting from T_D. Seriously do you think OP could do ALL that work and not realize how fucking dumb that is?

Reminder: No evidence of Russian shilling or even them favoring one side in the election. Turns out they favored the left with their Facebook ads. And it been proven quite a long time ago that their is a shilling organization (Used to be known as Correct The Record) that is called ShareBlue. And evidence came out such as list of their names and how much they got paid and (a classic) the "Nerd virgins" email.

Wow a whole eleven (11) people that copy paste comments compared to the hundreds to thousands that come in here pretty often. And again those people could easily just be shills pretending to be T_D.

I don't know if you realize how defensive you are coming off in your comments.

Manipulative language lowering your opponents standing. Got it.

I never said definitively one way or another what this behavior means,

Yes you did. You said they are "Blatantly pretending to have organic thoughts and discussions".

alas you still managed to project quite a bit onto my post and the comments.

Have no idea what I "Projected".

I look forward to you posting about the hundreds to thousands of other shills you say come here often.

Their have been post proving this they have simply been downvoted to hell by those shills. And it's confirmed their their is a shilling organization because of things like list of names and amount paid coming out and the "Nerd Virgins" email.

Of course, by your logic they could easily just be shills pretending to be whomever you think they are. :)

Zero evidence or even circumstantial evidence of any Russian shilling.

Remember that, each time, you are the one that brought up Russia. That's projection.

which would suggest that they were trying to pass off those posts and comments as organic and of their own interest and thoughts. Again I don't know who is doing this, just that it's happening.

You really are just exposing yourself.

Ain't projecting if you heavily imply that it is Russian likes that. Or if you aren't implying that then who would be the ones doing it? And why would they use so little (11) people?

Also completely ignoring me proving the other side shilling.

You really are just exposing yourself.

I'm aware that CTR/Shareblue exists, yet you have provided no evidence that the recent increases in activity are due to their efforts.

Jee I wonder who has the numbers in the hundreds to thousands that could do it.

Btw, I realized looking back at this chain that you essentially called me a shill in your first post. Reported, though I doubt much will be done about it.

Yea you definitely weren't implying I was a shill either with the "You really are just exposing yourself". Lmao fuck outta here dumbfuck.

Have a nice day and take care of yourself. Internet outrage is fairly futile overall.

Pretending that I had a outrage isn't a argument.

Bullshit you said it RIGHT AFTER you mentioned the non organic things the shills were doing.

im interested in the fact that this post has 85% upvote ratio, yet sits at only 426. we regularly see shitty threads that are debunked/attacked in the comments with well over 1000. that TD botnet is astroturfing the front page of this sub

Have my upvote. This needs to stop

This is a long time user, who I can guarantee you has been commenting for much longer than that. What you're seeing is a consequence of reddit only giving you the latest 1000 items on any listing. You say comments only go back 45 days? That's because he's made 1000 comments in the last 45 days. Go to this link and you'll see he's made comments going back at least 5 years, and has been active all throughout.

Exactly. I remember that post. It was absolute horseshit who knew just enough to know some of the terminology but was clearly jumping to conclusions due to not having the first clue how the tech works.

The fact that people are still remembering it, thinking its true, and telling other people is depressing as fuck.

Excellent comment. I would vote to sticky this if you make it into a post.

It's really /r/iamverysmart material, or /r/thatguyIhavenorelationtoisverysmart

This is the stupidest shit excuse I’ve ever seen. If you truly believe what you’re saying then why does the Trump/Russia conspiracy get 1 or 2 fucking threads and CNN/Pizzagate is literally wallpapering this sub? There’s an active propaganda campaign at work on this sub and the only reason you don’t see it is because you’re either a part of it or your complicit with it.

*being investigated by the long proven corrupt CIA/FBI.

Your probably correct. Especially since their's pretty much no way OP would go through all that effort for this post and somehow not realize 4 dudes reposting isn't evidence of a Russian astroturfing.

😂

You come up with that proof yet? No? lol I called it.

In what world would Putin be stupid enough to participate in that.

Putin wouldn't be the one to start it. Have you not been paying attention the last few years? The US has tried to overthrow the Russian government, and the governments of virtually all of their allies:

"The US has repeatedly meddled in Russian politics, “especially aggressively” in the 2012 presidential elections, President Vladimir Putin told Oliver Stone, while dismissing allegations that Moscow hacked the US elections as lies from Trump’s opponents.

In the final part of US filmmaker Oliver Stone’s documentary series, Putin Interviews, which was aired on Showtime on Thursday night, the Russian leader told the Oscar-winning director about how Washington has attempted to interfere in the Russian electoral process through US diplomatic staff and by pouring money into NGOs.

“[They did it] in 2000, and in 2012, this always happened. But especially aggressively in 2012. I will not go into details,” Putin said, adding that all of the other post-Soviet republics have also been subject to US meddling."

This included things like the US installing Nazis in Ukraine, with the senior State Department official (and long-time deep state operative) being caught discussing which crazies they would replace the lawful government with.

Probably with not running my scraper is not limiting it to the top 1k active subreddits. Turns out to compare author's age on just the first million submissions I would have to do nearly 400k http calls for the author's age. I might still try to tackle this, but it would have to be after this kaggle competition I am in.

Here is some information to tide you over though.

• engagement visualized

Most similar subreddits by engagement

• /r/AliceQueens
• /r/lavalrocket
• /r/Staysuccnet
• /r/sukasuka
• /r/Diecast
• /r/madeon
• /r/PartTransformation
• /r/trackandfield
• /r/GoBuffs
• /r/airplants
• /r/MomorDaughter
• /r/Ageplaystories
• /r/arcticmonkeys
• /r/kungfucinema
• /r/bbuk
• /r/INGLIN

Of the first million submissions of September

For fun

• Big C word cloud from the 1065 submission titles

Getting a list of author creation dates might take some time, but it is also probably the most important piece.

Side note: It would also be good to look at how many of the authors are submitting in other subreddits, and maybe even a 3rd degree of separation. Worth continuing, but if anyone else wants to pick it up from there.

Key Findings

Oddly enough, there is far more discussion happening in relation to upvotes than I thought. That could be explained through genuine engagement, or bots getting smarter. One thing I will have to look at is if posts from authors linked to posting history in other subreddits are getting upvoted more in relation to comments. Sentiment analysis should also be done to see if it causes deviation in engagement, as well as key terms.

I couldn't find an author's creation date dataset for download, so it might take a while to actually put together an author age visualization. I might just use google's big query and drop some cash to export targeted data.

Here is some stuff though.

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/79y2tj/the_rconspiracy_conspiracy/dp7qx4p/

Before everything was from a scraper I was using to just pull stuff that made it to the front page, going back I had no idea how many submission exist that never show up. September had millions of submissions, so I stuck to just the first million.

Remember that, each time, you are the one that brought up Russia. That's projection.

which would suggest that they were trying to pass off those posts and comments as organic and of their own interest and thoughts. Again I don't know who is doing this, just that it's happening.

You really are just exposing yourself.

Ain't projecting if you heavily imply that it is Russian likes that. Or if you aren't implying that then who would be the ones doing it? And why would they use so little (11) people?

Also completely ignoring me proving the other side shilling.

You really are just exposing yourself.

Avoiding the question. So typical troll. Dang, and I thought this was going to be a variant.

Man you are shook! I so got to you.

ha!

I think you're replying just a little bit too fast. I think you need a flood control timer. 10 minutes ok?

Oh I'm supposed to answer to an 18 day old baby? TIL