How have you come upon this information?

The account /u/peyote_the_coyote comes up as "This account has been suspended"

Then, there's this recent announcement from Reddit.

How did you find out, though? Is checking to see whether that account's still active part of your daily routine, or did you read it somewhere, or...?

He was well known around here and I've seen people say a couple times that we don't hear from him anymore. He went from full throttle posting to nothing, so somebody was bound to check his account and see what's up.

The -49 makes him stand out.

Funny that it's always either that or +45-50, almost as if there's a group of users brigading...

The user was pretty active. People notice when highly active users just disappear.

CaptainApollyon too.

We will miss you Captain, Friend or Foe!

Do you know when this happened?

No - I happened to have a recent thread with him - checked it and said the same as for good ol' peyote

What did this user do to warrant a suspension?

Maybe something to do with calling everyone who disagreed with him some kind of gay slur, which I won't repeat here.

LOL. That dude is not a Russian. Hahaaha!

He likes Russian dressing on his salads. GET HIM!!

Lol. It is Slavic dressing now.

Freedom dressing!

Lol.

2 scoops too

His account was suspended 3 days before the 13 Russian Troll were indicted, so either Reddit knew about what was coming down the pipeline or it was just a coincidence. I noted it in a couple comments from back then, because it seemed like an unusual time for it to go down. Although I myself have had an account shadow banned for no perticular reason, so anything is possible.

I wonder what he said to make people think he is a Russian troll.

I'm not saying they were a Russian troll, only the timing seemed odd. In fact, I've speculated they were banned in the lead up to the indictments so reddit could act like they were doing something about it when only banning specific vocal users. Kind of like the 13 indictments were of Russians running a click farm operation rather than trying to influence the election.

Yeah, okay.

Great contribution.

You contributed so much more with that well thought out reply of yours....

That account was suspended weeks ago. He's still on here.

Blaming everyone and everything you don't agree with on "Russian influence" is getting so tiresome.

ok comrade

Why do you call things NothingBurger and defend CNN here vehemently when it was CNN that used the term NothingBurger on hidden camera to say they were making the russian shit up for views?

This user should be suspended. It’s against the rules of this sub to infer that people are shills/trolls

How could your post get downvoted? Sad.

Do you suppose a mod could come over here and explain how this happens - I mean, do they give the user notice, let him explain anything suspicious, or mount a defense? I mean, are all Russian citizens banned - or accounts originating on a Russian server, or what?

What happens to all their post history? I am already having weirdness with my conversations with CaptainAppollton in my history. Am I suspect just because I had multiple conversations with him (usually very friendly even tho we did not see eye to eye on many issues).

Please do tell, Reddit!

This didn't happen after the announcement.

13 days ago this was posted in this sub: What got these accounts suspended? peyote_the_coyote and LightBringerFlex

What makes you think they'd suspend the accounts after announcing it? Seems normal to suspend and then later announce the intent.

http://i.imgs.fyi/img/2lzx.jpg

I thought he was suspended a while ago.

I'm sorry but.... hahahah

As someone one that isn't American I am in awe of how some elements of that country think the Cold War is still raging.

what's your sense of how your part of the world views our Russia obsession?

Juvenile.

You mind if I ask what part of the world you’re from? I’m just curious, I honestly couldn’t agree more, tbh.

Australia :). But seeing as how our country is just America Lite we have our fair share of Russian-fearing parrots.

Majorities say that if the assessment were to prove true, these attempts would be a crisis or major problem for the US (65% say so), and that the outcome of the election would have been the same regardless of the information released (58% say that). Further, 56% say that despite this situation, the US ought to continue its efforts to improve relations with Russia rather than take strong economic and diplomatic steps against Russia

Used a CNN poll deliberately. https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/17/politics/russia-hacking-election-poll-trump-clinton/index.html Most of the online prescense you see is artificial.

I mean, didn't Russia just yesterday unveil their new nukes that allegedly are immune to missile defense systems?

I could see the outrage if Russia had actually changed the outcome of the election by hacking actual voting machines and changing the tallies.

But this is a really stupid witch hunt. It's the WORLD WIDE web. Of course you're going to see content from Russians living in Actual by god Russia. And if the Russian government has something they want said on the interwebs it's by god gonna be said. And if anyone REALLLY thinks some damned Russian trolls adding a handful of voices to the innumerable random opinions someone finds browsing the web changed the outcome of the vote...

You're just being stupid and not giving people in general much credit for making up their own minds about what they see online.

It is about nationally censoring the internet, they like what China has been doing.

The issue is not the fact they influenced the election, the issue is how they did it. They are being accused of a massive covert state funded operation to influence the US election through social engineering.

They allegedly did so by creating massive numbers of accounts fraudulently identifying themselves as Americans as to gain the trust of real Americans they intend to influence.

They allegedly used the members they embedded into US community groups to spread and amplify false news articles. They allegedly did so in coordination with members of one of the candidate’s campaign team.

In today’s global society it’s impossible to be free of foreign influence, but there are definitely lines that can be drawn on what would be considered unacceptable. If Putin comes out and says he thinks Trump would be a great leader, that’s perfectly fine. If Putin spends millions in a covert operation to help Trump’s chances then he’s most definitely crossed the line.

Are you serious??? This is insane!

The entire nation was stunned and confounded by being presented with an off-field candidate D Trump in 2016. He was not even on our radar prior to that.

Meanwhile we had the first openly socialist party candidate for president take off with Bernie clearly out-politicking Clinton.

How the hell did Clinton beat Sanders? How the hell did Trump beat Clinton? We don't know.

Then you wtf your way into this whole catastrophic madhouse of "America wants what America can't have" and tell us with a serious face that we deserved what we got... because Russia??!!??

I know for damn sure no Russian had any effect on my vote. I voted, as I always have, for a 3rd-party candidate, with pride, in the ability to do it.

I also took American Government in 8th Grade, and I'm now certain that what I learned there has been massively perverted by people like these MSM witch-hunting fools hiding under a bunch of mean old Rooskies that come to undermine democracy!

There - I called your BS. Now do you want to negotiate?

Bernie clearly out-politicking Clinton.

No he didn't, Obama out-politicked Clinton, Bernie tried and failed.

Then you wtf your way into this whole catastrophic madhouse of "America wants what America can't have" and tell us with a serious face that we deserved what we got... because Russia??!!??

I literally have no idea what you're ranting about...

I know for damn sure no Russian had any effect on my vote. I voted, as I always have, for a 3rd-party candidate, with pride, in the ability to do it.

Good for you, but if social engineering didn't work to sway votes then there wouldn't be so much money spent on political ads.

There - I called your BS. Now do you want to negotiate?

Negotiate what? What do you think that word means?

It means that if I'm not talking to the boss, please hand me up to him so I can help resolve the issue we have. Otherwise I'm wasting my time. So are you your own boss?

What the actual fuck?

How did Clinton beat Sanders? Easy, Clinton is a household name and is synonymous with experience and wise policymaking in most households(I'm a Sanders supporter but my parents voted Clinton, because they knew her). And Clinton made sure to setup the Democratic Primary and media coverage to heavily favor her.

How did Trump beat Clinton? He didn't act like the election was his from the get go, he put on a populist mask, talked in layman terms, managed to spin his inherited wealth and business experience as good for the country, and he campaigned in the right states unlike Clinton who ignored several key states.

No one has pinned Trump's presidency to be caused by Russian trolls, just that so far it has played in a part in securing some votes for him. If you're so ready to believe that MSM, Reddit, YouTube, and Facebook are in on some evil plan to influence and censor the internet you better damn well believe that Russians ran sizeable operations in order to disrupt the 2016 election. Our intelligence agencies support it, our allied countries' intelligence agencies support it, Mueller has indicted several Russians who've confessed to it. And if you still decide to continue to yell that Russians did no wrong, despite having a reputation of trying to disrupt Western democracy for a while now, and that our allies, government, Reddit, Google, Facebook, and MSM are all lying bastards you need to reevaluate some stuff.

It's nice that you can say your vote wasn't influenced by Russia, but you put too much faith in the average person's ability to identify legitimate sources of information and falsified manipulative propaganda. Get something shared, tweeted, upvoted enough and it will seem legitimate and get spread to gullible people.

cut to that news story with the old lady organizing meet-ups at the behest of some russians lol. Or the hundreds of thousands of followers of that Tennessee??GOP acct--that was actually russian.

Clinton is a household name and is synonymous with experience and wise policymaking in most households

This just hurts. Do you know where you are? Your arguing in a damn conspiracy forum - one of the largest and most influential - where the name of Clinton is connected to half the stories we spin. And you're going to even utter that line and expect to ... what, convince us?

caused by Russian trolls Russians ran sizeable operations intelligence agencies support allied countries' intelligence agencies support Russians ... reputation of trying to disrupt Western democracy

I am truly not comforted by your expansive information on Russia.

our allies, government, Reddit, Google, Facebook, and MSM are all lying bastards

Yes, that is about the way those entities are usually viewed in these parts.

you put too much faith in the average person's ability to identify legitimate sources of information and falsified manipulative propaganda

Oh no, you put too little faith in "average persons". This is a democracy. That means everyone votes. Under the bell curve, the vast majority of us are "average persons". Or did you mean that "superior persons" would do a better job selecting our leaders? That would be... the bankers? ...the scientists? Well maybe its too late and that is where we are in this country. But if it is, tell us. Because we may have something to say about it...

Reread the previous post, or try and step back and figure out what the conversation thread is actually about. It's about why laymen voted for Clinton, not the ultra secret super woke /r/conspiracy community. Also congratulations, here's your official /r/conspiracy badge for representing the entire community in your assumptions about what people believe or speculate.

First off, thanks for the response, and the down-votes, I always appreciate that badge of honor under the new regime.

why laymen voted for Clinton

So you deny any manipulation that might have swayed "laymen" voters against Bernie and back to Clinton - that the primary was above board? Sorry I cannot help then.

assumptions about what people believe or speculate

So you deny that the Clinton name has been associated with very troubling conspiracy fodder since at least 1992 when he ran into pretty serious sexual predator notoriety, and then came Vince Foster suicide in 1993? Again, sorry.

representing the entire community

So you deny me the privilege to speak generally about a community I have been involved with over 5 years of fairly turbulent conversations from all valid "conspiracy-oriented" discussion? So you would rather that be "politically-correct" discussion?

If you're so ready to believe that MSM, Reddit, YouTube, and Facebook are in on some evil plan to influence and censor the internet you better damn well believe that Russians ran sizeable operations in order to disrupt the 2016 election.

Ah ... no. You can believe that.

Allegedly Allegedly Allegedly.

With no proof of anything other than some pathetic Russian troll farming. If this was the other way around and the candidate you like had won and someone made this same argument to you you'd think it was the stupidest shit you ever heard and that they were just mad that they lost and incapable of seeing that their message was rejected by the voters.

There's plenty of proof that multiple members of the Trump campaign has had undisclosed contact with Russian officials. Things like Felix Slater's email, to Trump Jr's meeting to Kushner's back channel. Those are just the major ones, there are dozens of smaller events tying Trump's campaign to suspicious activities involving Russian officials.

More facts are coming to light as a part of Mueller's investigation. Under corroboration from domestic and multiple foreign intelligence agencies congress has deemed there to be irrefutable proof of Russian election meddling. As a result they have passed sanctions on Russia that Trump has continuously delayed, and last I heard, refused to implement.

So if think there's "no proof" then it's only because you've got your eyes and ears closed. Also for your information, Trump did try to turn it around by alleging Hillary committed massive voter fraud. He launched an investigation that turned out evidence they didn't want to see so he scrapped the investigation and destroyed all the documents.

it's been what a year? How many indictments does he have related to Russia. I'm not saying those guys are angels but there is literally nothing to prove any sort of Russian government collusion with Trump's campaign.

We DO know though that the Democratic primaries were rigged and we didn't even need Russians to do it. If you fixed a football game or a horse race people would be going to jail. you defraud millions of people into donating extensive time and significant money into a political campaign in what they believe to be a fair primary and that's just fine.

At the very least that should be a class action lawsuit.

Why haven't those idiots removed me yet?

Wait....if you don't believe the mainstream media obsessed narrative about Trump-Russia then you are a Russian bot?

Fuck off.

Majorities say that if the assessment were to prove true, these attempts would be a crisis or major problem for the US (65% say so), and that the outcome of the election would have been the same regardless of the information released (58% say that). Further, 56% say that despite this situation, the US ought to continue its efforts to improve relations with Russia rather than take strong economic and diplomatic steps against Russia

Used a CNN poll deliberately. https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/17/politics/russia-hacking-election-poll-trump-clinton/index.html Most of the online prescense you see is artificial.

Reading the comments in here... if only we could have seen what this sub would become.

I posted about that users main account in a thread a few days ago, here. He's still here. Loud and proud. Maybe even in this thread. I'm 99% those in charge here are aware of it as well. But some here are more protected than others. Just look at the accounts that gets banned (or have many comments [deleted]) from here occasionally because they consistently break many rules in a rather vile manner but are always allowed to come back.

It is a nothing burger dumbass

Rule 10.

Load of shit.

Fuck off you shill cunt. The Russia story is so piss weak it's not even worth talking about.

What about British influence in US elections? Why is that not mentioned? British banks have a huge influence on elections in the US. They even have a say in who gets to run. Trump was okayed by them too.

I hope I don't get banned for always posting about how the "Trump-Russia collusion" story is a bunch of bullshit, and how every day the story falls apart a little more.

But I don't think he was banned for that anyway. Peyote was just rude, and used a lot of "no-no words" when talking to people here because he got too emotional about it. He gave them the perfect excuse to ban him, really.

mumpitz ... the story you talk about is a fake news story on the fake news paper thedailybeast

as when this would be even a story ... banned accounts on reddits are a non story because its jsut 2-3 clicks to make a new one

Anybody know of u/harvardgrad007? He posted a lot about vaccines and his account was deleted a few weeks ago

The account /u/peyote_the_coyote comes up as "This account has been suspended"

Then, there's this recent announcement from Reddit.