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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 cheonse at 15/02/2017 at 21:58 UTC
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More often than not, the only vote manipulation actually happening on that subreddit is instead the people going in to brigade the hell out of it with downvotes.
Comment by Tasty_Jesus at 15/02/2017 at 23:09 UTC
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Seriously. I don't think anyone pays attention to the numbers. Look at subscribers and active users in all the new anti Trump subs popping up that miraculously reach the front page and tell me who you think is using bots.
Meanwhile, a large amount of people are segregated into one main sub serving their interest that somehow makes it to the front page one post at a time even with manipulated algorithms and it's some massive annoyance...