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toobaditworks ago

I'd love to see concrete proof of this. Everything you said basically anyone can say and has been saying.

Mylon ago

I've seen the proof myself. Reddit has had a large number of questionable content appear on the front page. It forced me to drop a lot of default subs because I was getting sick of the bullshit.

Some examples of bullshit content:

* Drug overdose pictures. They topped WTF for a whole week. Most of the top comments were, "No, this is what happens when your dealer cuts it with shitty addititves"
* K9 puppy in an oversized vest in aww. Title, "He'll grow into it." It wasn't cute. It was just outright propaganda. I think I saw this twice, at least.
* DORITOS(tm). This was a big thing a while back. I don't see it too much anymore. This agrees with OP's story about how it started as product marketing and evolved into something.
* Top post of conspiracy a week ago was an AMA about this guy spouting the most insane shit. Lots of the posts were people backing him up. Stuff including "military officers on active space missions" and 60 years of reverse engineering alien tech and more. Oddly I don't see it now, but it looked like a dedicated attempt to discredit /r/conspiracy.
* Very sudden appearance of "Snowden is an active CIA agent" posts after the John Oliver interview. Or the sudden insurgence of Oklahoma City bombing theories. Like one post that was near the top it was a grainy picture of a fenced off area with rental trucks with no context.
* Random video of some black kid ranting at his cell phone that was on videos a week ago. Basically saying, "Not all cops are bad." Who fucking cares? It only was on the front page because it was manipulated to be there.

Reddit admins cannot possibly be blind to it. Sure, people like Unidan were able to get away with manipulating the system for a long time to gain amazing exposure and popularity under the Admin's nose, but honestly he was producing quality content. If anything, the sudden demonization of the man seems suspicious (but I could accept that just being the fickle tide once his methods were exposed).

I've seen posts with 2000 upvotes and < 100 comments and that immediately throws up a red flag. Just looking at these stats alone make the post look suspicious. And then you look at the post itself and you can see that certain parties benefit by the post content.

Now is the worst time to look because it's near the end of the business day, but some suspicious posts on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleTwitter/comments/33gw5v/oh_hell_yeah/ - Almost 4000 votes and 86 comments from a sub with only 300k users. Promotes subtle racism. (Actually 3 posts from that sub in top 100. I never heard of it.)

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/33gomx/cutest_government_worker/ - Lots of comments, but it is 8 hours old. Very much a pro-government picture. Trying to discount the fact that dog sniffing dogs are very inaccurate and are often used by cops to manufacture probable cause. In the comments, way, down, is a post 5 hours old with 25 votes with a generic response, but below that is one with 125 votes saying, "I'd let her violate my rights." Both 5 hours old. Why is the one with 5x as many votes ranked lower? Below that, with 400+ votes, "Upvoted because girl". The only posts challenging the narrative have been suppressed and ones promoting the narrative (or fulling it with mindless chatter) have been boosted.

You can find a lot more bullshit on the front page at 10 AM est. This post has already taken too much time to write, but I believe OP. Reddit has gone to shit.