I think he's onto something also. There will be some heavily upvoted story that soaks a lot of attention and the top comment will be some throwaway nonsense to

I think he's onto something also. There will be some heavily upvoted story that soaks a lot of attention and the top comment will be some throwaway nonsense to promote the "Bitcoin is not serious/is just a scam/this is all bullshit" angle, any reasonable comments will be downvoted in righteous fury, any suggestions that something untoward is going on even more so. This will go on for about a day, then a couple days later the exact same topic will come up again, and the response will be completely normal and the shill brigade obviously absent. See this for example, shill brigade in effect; http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/22zl2w/bitcoin_among_list_of_keywords_that_earn_an/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/22zl2w/bitcoin_amon... And a day later, same subject, shill brigade absent; http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/23495x/reddit_mods_are_censoring_dozens_of_words_from/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/23495x/reddit_mods_... This is not the only time I have seen this happen there, just the most obvious instance.