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Yep. That was really bad on Reddit during the election. If you even broached certain topics about Hillary, it was downvoted/flagged right away. Then the day aft

by kop316 7y ago

Yep. That was really bad on Reddit during the election. If you even broached certain topics about Hillary, it was downvoted/flagged right away. Then the day after the election, Those topics actually came up.

Gibbon1 7y ago
The week after the election was interesting because the trolls didn't have new marching orders. So it was suddenly just random people.
- SlowRobotAhead 7y ago
  Exactly. It was weird, a stark contrast to the months up before it. All of a sudden the political subs were... reasonable. I’d love to see a little more research into pre/post event stats.
  - mieseratte 7y ago
    > All of a sudden the political subs were... reasonable. Yeah... no. It went full "Not My President" overnight. Hell, not even overnight. It went full "Not My President" that very night. And if you think that's bad, had to deal with brass at work (fintech) proclaiming that we needed to spend an insane amount of capital in preparation for the record trade volume we would need to process because the markets were going to collapse.
whamlastxmas 7y ago
Also funny because one of the /r/politics rules was that you were not allowed to accuse someone of shilling. I just checked now and it's still one of the top rules. Given how pro-Hillary and anti-Sanders that sub became overnight, it seems that they were wanting to subdue the commentary on the proven paid influence HRC had.
- SlowRobotAhead 7y ago
  > Given how pro-Hillary and anti-Sanders that sub became overnight I was there for that too. It literally was flip of a switch speed. One of the big turning points I saw regarding the election.
  - bduerst 7y ago
    I'm not sure when you're referencing, but Russian troll farms used Sanders to divide the left on social media websites.
    - kop316 7y ago
      He was referring to just how pro-Sanders/Anti-Hillary Reddit was up until the electron primaries. Right after Hillary got the nomination in 2016, it turned to Pro-Hillary. /r/politics was particularly bad on all of that. The first day after the election was the first time any news about the private email server was even allowed on /r/politics.
      - iron0013 7y ago
        "Right after Hillary got the nomination in 2016, it turned to Pro-Hillary." Isn't that exactly what you'd expect to happen if a lot of the commenters where Democratic voters acting as rational agents in good faith? If I were a Bernie supporter in 2016 who wanted the Democratic candidate (whoever that might end up being) to win, why would I shit on Clinton after she won the nomination? It'd make more sense to support her, and I think that's what a lot of people did. That's certainly exactly what I did.
        whamlastxmas 7y ago
        Because they maliciously sabotaged Sanders in an extremely undemocratic way and Sanders supporters would want accountability and change so that doesn't happen again?
    - mieseratte 7y ago
EasyTiger_ 7y ago
I mean it’s actually worse now since 2016.

by kop316 7y ago

Gibbon1 7y ago

The week after the election was interesting because the trolls didn't have new marching orders. So it was suddenly just random people.

SlowRobotAhead 7y ago
Exactly. It was weird, a stark contrast to the months up before it. All of a sudden the political subs were... reasonable. I’d love to see a little more research into pre/post event stats.
- mieseratte 7y ago
  > All of a sudden the political subs were... reasonable. Yeah... no. It went full "Not My President" overnight. Hell, not even overnight. It went full "Not My President" that very night. And if you think that's bad, had to deal with brass at work (fintech) proclaiming that we needed to spend an insane amount of capital in preparation for the record trade volume we would need to process because the markets were going to collapse.

whamlastxmas 7y ago

Also funny because one of the /r/politics rules was that you were not allowed to accuse someone of shilling. I just checked now and it's still one of the top rules. Given how pro-Hillary and anti-Sanders that sub became overnight, it seems that they were wanting to subdue the commentary on the proven paid influence HRC had.

SlowRobotAhead 7y ago
> Given how pro-Hillary and anti-Sanders that sub became overnight I was there for that too. It literally was flip of a switch speed. One of the big turning points I saw regarding the election.
- bduerst 7y ago
  I'm not sure when you're referencing, but Russian troll farms used Sanders to divide the left on social media websites.
  - kop316 7y ago
    He was referring to just how pro-Sanders/Anti-Hillary Reddit was up until the electron primaries. Right after Hillary got the nomination in 2016, it turned to Pro-Hillary. /r/politics was particularly bad on all of that. The first day after the election was the first time any news about the private email server was even allowed on /r/politics.
    - iron0013 7y ago
      "Right after Hillary got the nomination in 2016, it turned to Pro-Hillary." Isn't that exactly what you'd expect to happen if a lot of the commenters where Democratic voters acting as rational agents in good faith? If I were a Bernie supporter in 2016 who wanted the Democratic candidate (whoever that might end up being) to win, why would I shit on Clinton after she won the nomination? It'd make more sense to support her, and I think that's what a lot of people did. That's certainly exactly what I did.
      - whamlastxmas 7y ago
        Because they maliciously sabotaged Sanders in an extremely undemocratic way and Sanders supporters would want accountability and change so that doesn't happen again?
  - mieseratte 7y ago

EasyTiger_ 7y ago

I mean it’s actually worse now since 2016.