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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kulturkampf ago
I can say that from the Facebook pages I ran with lots of success that there were organized efforts to tard post under dissident right content to make us loook unhinged and unwell. Much of this content would also be ridiculously liked and would become focal points.
I know someone who as a hobby trolled as a fake, retarded nationalist and whenever he got likes he used it as proof of how terrible we all are, but it is just as likely he was getting sarcastic likes.
I can also say that there would be thoughtful posts with controversial statements that would be deleted and banned, but sometimes very stupid statements with slurs and dumb statements would remain against all odds. I believe mods did this only to enable us to look more unhinged.
I never had time to manually manage all this.