/r/conspiracy is controlled by voting bots

25  2011-08-22 by souperduper

People downvote certain websites and topics without so much as a comment or even clicking the link!!! If that isn't ironclad proof of systematic manipulation I don't know what is.

Anyone know a platform we can fall back on?

25 comments

13  SHAGGSTaRR 2011-08-22

My blog posts are downvoted every time I post them on /r/conspiracy

Must be a conspiracy

9  [deleted] 2011-08-22

Sort by "new", not "hot", and tah-dah! Up or down votes don't matter!

You're welcome.

3  souperduper 2011-08-22

Great point. Controversial is a good place to look for buried articles as well

3  snakestomper 2011-08-22

In the last few weeks we have had front pages like I have never seen before. It was two Jon Stewart links as the top post the other day that finally drove the fact home for me that this subreddit is being gamed (in the past I think it was generally ignored).

We are also starting to get spammed by the usual suspects: Businessinsider, Thinkprogress, Guardian UK, and Dailymail to name a few. People just need to keep bringing this up and pay attention to who is submitting from the spam sites

2  [deleted] 2011-08-22

The voting bots are also being controlled by voting bots

2  Tin_Foil_Haberdasher 2011-08-22

B O T C E P T I O N

1  SeriousDude 2011-08-22

Also too much hate from Allah followers Versus Abraham, It's just too obvious....

1  meta4one 2011-08-22

I wouldn't be suprised, infact it makes sense. Reddit is an amazing site that is great at promoting ideas, news, concepts, and opinions better than most sites on the interwebs. I believe some people in power would see this as a huge threat. It's always struck me at strange at how poorly this subredit performs. I image TPTB wouldn't want the /r/conspiracy reddit to actually promote outside the box thinking, and truth seeking to the masses.

0  Tin_Foil_Haberdasher 2011-08-22

God damn, this subreddit is hilarious.

-4  77_65_65_64 2011-08-22

lol, dude that is evidence of nothing. If the article is shit or the thought is dumb it's going to be downvoted without anyone explaining why, usually.

8  souperduper 2011-08-22

So you can tell an article is shit without reading? Interesting

2  SHAGGSTaRR 2011-08-22

If the article is shit or the thought is dumb

This implies paying enough attention to the content to form an opinion, so I don't get why you're presuming they're not being read. Why are you so sure some submissions are simply unread?

-3  77_65_65_64 2011-08-22

I can skim it and downvote accordingly...

6  souperduper 2011-08-22

Good to know you can't be bothered to actually read and instead read headlines and pretend you understand it. Way to perpetuate all of the ills of our culture!

2  SHAGGSTaRR 2011-08-22

Think of how much information the typical reddit user gets inundated with daily. Just because he's not reading endthelie.com religiously doesn't mean he's some sort of everything that I don't like with these guys I live among made flesh.

1  meta4one 2011-08-22

where's the like button?

-4  Zigguraticus 2011-08-22

You are not so important that people feel the need to silence you. See also: delusions of grandeur. The hard truth is that no one really gives a shit what you have to say. The sooner you realize that the better off you will be.

-5  RogerStrong 2011-08-22

If I see yet another "Jews caused 9/11" or "WTC7 was faked because this YouTube video has creepy music" link, there's no need to comment or click the link before downvoting.

Really, I give new topics the benefit of the doubt. But some posts, especially from certain posters, are obviously a waste of time.

-3  souperduper 2011-08-22

I'm not speaking of those types of things at all. I agree with you on that front

-1  RogerStrong 2011-08-22

Fair enough.

-6  thegouch 2011-08-22

Umm....if you consider that ironclad proof of anything I know that you're a conspiracy theorist.

6  souperduper 2011-08-22

So hundreds of downvotes and no clicks is normal? Lol

2  77_65_65_64 2011-08-22

if it happens, it's because you only post from your blog. some people think that is auto "blog-spam".

1  souperduper 2011-08-22

Oh okay, I forgot you had access to website statistics for every website on the Internet. Good to know.

9  SHAGGSTaRR 2011-08-22

You do actually only submit stuff from endthelie.com though.