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I still remember notreddit.top.
when you could CLEARLY see the astroturfing in action. Right around the end of 2016, when Hillary Clinton started a run on the presidency and all of a sudden, every single post showing Hillary in a negative light suddenly started getting thousands of downvotes! And 80% of every single most downvoted post on the entirety of reddit came from one ostensibly 'neutral' subreddit that started showing a hyper political leaning!
Seriously, a post in /r/linux asking 'why is Linux so fucking awful?' only managed to get the fourth most-downvoted spot for that 24-hour period!
Maybe that's why upvote/downvote counts got turned off?
Comment by that__one__guy at 08/12/2021 at 18:43 UTC
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when you could CLEARLY see the astroturfing in action. Right around the end of 2016, when Hillary Clinton started a run on the presidency and all of a sudden, every single post showing Hillary in a negative light suddenly started getting thousands of downvotes!
Sounds like someone needs a recap of reddit in 2016 since this is laughably wrong. Not to mention that the election was in 2016 so she definitely didn't start it then.