So many of us have wanted this fake news site banned. That’s great news! Here are details for those who missed it...
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INITIAL PROOF OF VOTE MANIPULATION
Steps involved:
One sockpuppet account creates two or three comments
Other sockpuppets(5 to 6) upvote the comments.
As soon as the votes are registered and ccp score is cached, the sockpuppet account makes at least one submission to GA or QRV subverse.
The account then immediately deletes the comments that were used to upvote and bypass ccp restriction for submission. This also prevents downvotes from other genuine users (they downvote them because the site spreads fake news).
The newly submitted submissions, they quickly gain at least 5 upvotes within 7 minutes or so. It may be shorter, but I don't have a way of confirming it, due to cache timing on Voat.
This tactic has been used at least 3 times.
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RIGGED_ELECTION ago
Fuck I got tired of seeing those links pop up here. What's worse is that it's not just vote manipulation, people actually fall for the shit, upvoting the title or headlines without reading through the articles. Or worse, just upvoting because they see a lot of other people voting and they think it must be important and wanna be part of the cool kids club.
Themooninthesky ago
That’s my point that headlines get 200+ upvotes and it’s not original thought or content but everybody upvotes it? I didn’t get it but now I do. When I see (((news))) posts with 200+ upvotes, I get very suspicious.