The answer essentially is yes.
Get a bunch of alts. Use downvotes to target specific users. Gang attack, or brigade, specific users. Dig up info on them. Approach them in PMs and try to get info to intimidate them with. Make threats in the anon subs. Hope to drive them off. Bring in more alts. Attack any newer accounts with downvotes that aren't yours. Pretty soon an increasing number of accounts are controlled by you. And you can gang attack more accounts you deem problematic. If you're getting paid to do this it makes it especially advantageous as the average isolated poster lacks the resources of, say, the US federal government to counter you. That is if they have any real inkling of what is going on in the first place.
But I'd suggest y'all start organizing among yourselves. In particular if you see older users getting brigaded, upvote them. That is a red flag. If they are subverse owners it is particularly suspicious. If they are newer accounts that don't come off totally idiotic it also is.
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ErrorHasNoRights ago
Voat has a lot of the weaknesses that are inherent in reddit. If you look at something like /r/The_Donald, that's a place that's probably 90% curated content. People think it's honest, open discussion but it's not.
Often when I see stuff on voat and 4chan I get incredibly black-pilled about the dissident right. I don't know if it's mostly manufactured shilling and brigading like you're referring to, or if it's mostly genuine and the dissident right is just chock full of retards. But I'm seeing these patterns on just about every platform -- Twitter, YouTube, etc.
If there's a group out there trying to control voat, what narratives do they intend to suppress and which ones do they elevate? And what is the motivation? I guess those are questions we can think about. But I see a lot of commonality between voat "narratives" and what is seen in the dissident right on other platforms, even with people who use their public names.
The other aspect is that, in my view, zoomers are basically less than useless when it comes to this fight, and they dominate these platforms. That's just one more gear in the machine that has to be considered. Even the highly intelligent zoomers are less than useless.
Joe_McCarthy ago
It could plausibly just be retards. But this list suggests we have accounts being used by multiple users, probably working on shifts.
https://voat.co/v/VoatStatistics/3587666
Think hard on some of those statistics.
Regardless, another well organized group can counter this bullshit. The motivations are only secondary. The overriding point is to come to the defense of quality. Not hostile clowns, morons, or disruption agents.