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Dude I think you hit the nail right on the head with the agent provocateur call.
/r/conspiracy did start out legitimate, but its' legitimacy has been steadily waning over the past year and a half.
It truly does seem like a professionally enacted multi-tiered plan, which I will try and deliniate.
1. Infiltration, work up a huge fan base ( or sock puppet it yourself ) so that you can call a mod vote to get yourself instated as mod.
2. Delegitimize the sub by submitting pure lunacy and other "conspiracy theories" that are flat out wrong (space lizards and faked moon landings) so as to discredit the entire sub, putting people off from coming here and finding out about factual information.
3. Create blatant opposition (/r/conspiratard) that masquerades as friendly counterpoint (while blatantly mocking the opposition so as to further provoke them) so that you can further deride your opposition as being "paranoid that you're out to get them", and that they're all angry crazy people when they provoke people of lesser intelligence to lash out with hateful comments.
4. Covertly brigade submissions/comments through irc channels and NP links and other off reddit communication modes.
5. Profit
There's nothing here!