The astroturfing was already obvious by Clinton shills in 2016. r/politics was completely unusable for anyone who wasn't a fan of her. Then - after the election it suddenly went away and normal people could discuss it again.
This time it was even worse. It started earlier and went to new heights - they didn't even try to hide it anymore. I bet it will continue until 2021.
But I doubt there is anyone left who will visit that shit of a sub after it stops until the next election.
But I doubt there is anyone left who will visit that shit of a sub after it stops until the next election.
You underestimate the stupidity of the masses. I know people who only get their news from reddit and super progressives they follow on Twitter. They themselves are left wing but not insane progressive and that's exactly how they try to make you demonize the right. I used to read CNN daily until about 6 years ago when I just couldn't take it anymore. It just got worse and worse and worse until I was fed up with my side being excoriated on opinion alone, not facts or objective reality.
I honestly question what "the masses" mean on Reddit--at this point I don't think they're human. It's mostly bots, I think. There's no way human behavior turns such a 180 like what we saw in the politics sub in 2016.
Given that, the conservative sub is probably kept around just to give the appearance of Republicans acting/thinking a certain way even though it's all shilled/bots.
To further your point, r/politics was heavily Bernie skewed with a small minority of conservatives and trump fans. Then the Bernie conceded, the mods got replaced and literally over night it became a 100% pro clinton echo chamber. The only thing r/politics agreed on prior was how much they hated clinton.
It was all Bernie until Hillary got the nomination , flipped to pro Hillary for a day, then went all negative Trump. Kind of amazing to watch in realtime.
The astroturfing was already obvious by Clinton shills in 2016. r/politics was completely unusable for anyone who wasn't a fan of her. Then - after the election it suddenly went away and normal people could discuss it again.
This time it was even worse. It started earlier and went to new heights - they didn't even try to hide it anymore. I bet it will continue until 2021.
But I doubt there is anyone left who will visit that shit of a sub after it stops until the next election.
You underestimate the stupidity of the masses. I know people who only get their news from reddit and super progressives they follow on Twitter. They themselves are left wing but not insane progressive and that's exactly how they try to make you demonize the right. I used to read CNN daily until about 6 years ago when I just couldn't take it anymore. It just got worse and worse and worse until I was fed up with my side being excoriated on opinion alone, not facts or objective reality.
I honestly question what "the masses" mean on Reddit--at this point I don't think they're human. It's mostly bots, I think. There's no way human behavior turns such a 180 like what we saw in the politics sub in 2016.
Given that, the conservative sub is probably kept around just to give the appearance of Republicans acting/thinking a certain way even though it's all shilled/bots.
To further your point, r/politics was heavily Bernie skewed with a small minority of conservatives and trump fans. Then the Bernie conceded, the mods got replaced and literally over night it became a 100% pro clinton echo chamber. The only thing r/politics agreed on prior was how much they hated clinton.
That's because Hillary's superPAC bought control of /r/politics from the mods and admins.
No exaggeration.
It was all Bernie until Hillary got the nomination , flipped to pro Hillary for a day, then went all negative Trump. Kind of amazing to watch in realtime.