Think bots shitted up my thread - just looking for a second opinion.

Short version: made a post describing SSL being intentionally backdoored, explained ramifications for most VPNs, and related. Went well for a bit, then this guy shows up, and then this guy, and within a minute, my submission had 6 downvotes, and most of my comments did too (some of those downvotes have been removed - at one point, all of my existing comments had -6).

Those two posts then gained 12 upvotes, also in the span of a minute. Two of those guys were aged accounts.

@jwolfsen

Member for: 1.1 years CCP 73

Top comment: She can "fix him"

3/4 of his first page of comments are all one-liners, the remainder are only 2 sentences. Literally never posted anything of substance.

@SarcasmIsHateCrime

Member for 4.6 hours CCP 5

This guy's first post was in my thread. He literally created an account to shit up my thread.

@ChiComs

Member for 7 days

Literally bragging about shilling his way up to 134 CCP in less than 16 hours in this post once @Epictetus_Hierapolis tried to out him as a shill Image backup

@zatoichi69

Member for 3 months

This is another aged account - last post was over a month ago.

Had +5 | -0 ccp when he entered my thread. Literally gained the ability to downvote in my thread when the other bots brigaded him.