Anyone else notice that typing the word "Palestine" or "Isreal" in comments (on Voat) causes a a few nasty replies from ad hominem style debaters? (Conspiracy)

submitted ago by 404_SLEEP_NOT_FOUND

I'm honestly asking, not looking for a circlejerk.

Just a test that would be interesting. Try obscuring the words Palestine and israel (eg: Israeel or Isr@el) and see if maybe that causes less astroturf style response. I'm pretty sure that websites/twitter are monitored in a streaming fashion to detect mentions of Israel (the same way corporations monitor their "brand mentions". There are many start-up type companies that offer this monitor, but it's also pretty easy to just write a bot that uses the twitter API or is a basic HTTP scraper.

TL;DR: Mentioning Israel/Palestine definitely gets nasty, derailing comments in other websites. But what about voat, is that already here?

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Sciency ago

I've seen the same trend. My best guess is that they use simple search scrips that (as you mentioned) look through /v/all (sorted by new) and direct the user to the results.

I have seen no real proof of this, but it's pretty easy on a software level, and it would make campaigning and shilling a far easier job. From there all the user has to do is use their same old tactics without any of the normal "digging" such a job requires.