Comment by Greybuttcats on 15/02/2017 at 19:43 UTC

126 upvotes, 19 direct replies (showing 19)

Hopefully, I have my front page tailored for me obviously, but sometimes it's nice to go on r/all. Problem is t_d has gotten really good at vote manipulation so anytime they want to send anything to the front page they sic their army of bots on it.

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Comment by griff431 at 15/02/2017 at 19:45 UTC

65 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Reddit recently added the ability to filter out specific subreddits from /r/all. They also limited how many posts a specific subreddit can have reach the front page.

Comment by baskandpurr at 15/02/2017 at 21:42 UTC

6 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Do you have any basis for thinking that /r/The_Donald uses bots? The sub has 300k subscribers, thats easily enough to reach the front page if enough of those people upvote the posts. No vote manipulation required.

Comment by [deleted] at 15/02/2017 at 19:45 UTC

21 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Use the filter.

Comment by illegal_deagle at 15/02/2017 at 22:40 UTC

1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

I think it's important to not live in an echo chamber so, even though I hate their ideology, I don't filter T_D. The problem is that when they reach the front page, it's never anything worth reading. It's always "LETS GET THIS PIC OF FRANKEN TO #1 GOOGLE RESULTS FOR CUCK" or some blatant fake news pizza gate style link. I have to think *somewhere* in a sub that large there has to be *something* worth sharing.

Comment by lemaymayguy at 15/02/2017 at 23:37 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Actually using the upvote system is vote manipulation? Lmao

Comment by melomanian at 15/02/2017 at 23:16 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Bots? Doubt it. Try large and engaged subreddit.

Comment by [deleted] at 15/02/2017 at 23:06 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

T_d dosen't have bots. What they do is upvote absolutely anything. Kind of like a politically charged meirl.

Comment by [deleted] at 15/02/2017 at 21:46 UTC*

4 upvotes, 0 direct replies

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Comment by [deleted] at 15/02/2017 at 20:05 UTC

-2 upvotes, 3 direct replies

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Comment by BrickHardcheese at 15/02/2017 at 20:07 UTC

-5 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Having a very active user base is not vote manipulation.

Comment by 73297 at 15/02/2017 at 21:53 UTC

2 upvotes, 0 direct replies

bots

Comment by [deleted] at 15/02/2017 at 22:18 UTC

0 upvotes, 0 direct replies

They don't have bots. Just 20k users at any given time upvoting everything.

Comment by SomethingMusic at 15/02/2017 at 22:27 UTC

-1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Complaining about T_D vote manipulating (which there is literally 0 evidence of) and ignoring the brigading and vote manipulation of other similar subs is hypocritical to say the least.

Comment by [deleted] at 15/02/2017 at 21:28 UTC

-3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

You do realize that the myth the /r/the_donald uses voting manipulation has absolutely no proof to it, right? Admins have repeatedly said it's by far the most active sub.

Comment by outlooker707 at 15/02/2017 at 22:26 UTC

-5 upvotes, 1 direct replies

The_donald is one sub. Meanwhile there are like 20 anti trump subs that use bots to get to the front page.