I investigated further. If you have a sub specific 1 post karma on r/politics, which all conservatives will have, but (+) from TD, etc. then you can post on redacted.
So now, the only way to post on redacted it to use an alt that also garners post karma on the Dom, etc. to counteract the shill losses. It is getting too complicated.
This shows the post evidence of the takeover of r/politics, on 7/30/2016
https://magaimg.net/img/37uw.png
All the content shifted from pro-Bernie to full on pro-Clinton. Shills were obvious and rampant, and suddenly a "cannot call another a shill" rule led to bans left and right. It was ugly.
In r/politics the shills are saying the rule applies to the calendar year of the election, not within 365 days of the election. So RBG can pass within the next 5 weeks and the can howl inefectually all they want, but the rule will even be satisfied - if nomination goes out by 12/31/2019. An 11pm nomination on 12/31 would be magnificent
I will bet that every click we do on Reddit is totalled up for engagement #'s
If we all depart, those clicks go away. I'm not in IT, so I may be wrong. But why else do they let us remain? Reddit hates the Dom. They stifle the Dom and its users ad nauseum. The only reason to keep us around would have to be financial
Prior to this site: Reddit admin bans the Dom; admin thinks we remain on Reddit in a pacified state
After this site: Reddit admin knows that if they ban the Dom they lose thousands of active users, clicks drop, advertisers see it, Reddit takes a big hit. Users will make a stab at covert red pilling, or going ape on redacted, quick to be banned, and will cease visiting Reddit. This site will expand. Some brave warriors will venture back to Reddit for forlorn hope style assaults, but no significant clicks granted to Reddit. Reddit will take a BIG hit without the Dom users.
Watch Reddit NOT ban the Dom now, given this very real threat to their revenue. More rules, sure, and the Dom will likely slowly melt while Dom 2.0 grows.
My take
To allow the 3rd party normies that are automatically subscribed, to see some truth amongst the shill trash. R/politics is a default sub, and if you read the rules, it purports to be a fully even handed bipartisan sub. They want normies to walk away sayng, "wow, looks like the world is decidely left, since the huge support on this bipartisan sub is left. I should be left too..."
You cannot ever change a shills mind, but you are fighting them not for them, but for observers sakes.