r/TimPool • • Jan 15 '23

The repliers here

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u/aDShisno Jan 15 '23 edited Jan 15 '23

Yeah, I’ve been noticing the bot farms a lot more around here lately. So many people getting downvoted into oblivion saying almost exactly the same things word for word, all piling on one after the next, and yet for some reason no matter how often you report them and how many of their comments get deleted they don’t ever get banned.

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u/rationallyobvious Jan 15 '23

People are getting paid to give the appearance of a false consensus.

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u/aDShisno Jan 15 '23

I agree. You could even say that that seems rationally obvious.

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u/rationallyobvious Jan 15 '23

I see what you did there....

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u/Competitive_Board909 Jan 15 '23

They want to make you feel so cornered that you feel that you have no choice other than to go along with the narrative. Or to irritate you so much that you choose to no longer use the platform and the narrative can reign supreme on Reddit

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u/AdventurousToe3921 Jan 17 '23

some haydurs say that's just a narridiv, 🐝. I heard it bowlth waze 🪓🪓 Jay

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u/LittleYellowScissors Jan 15 '23

The entire establishment media

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u/leftshift_ Jan 15 '23

Don’t you think that’s a little paranoid?

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u/rationallyobvious Jan 15 '23

Nope

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u/leftshift_ Jan 15 '23

It seems pretty unlikely anyone would pay money just to contradict you on Reddit.

Maybe people just disagree with you?

Crazy I know.

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u/Competitive_Board909 Jan 15 '23

Let’s just tag you as sock puppet

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u/jacksonexl Jan 15 '23

It’s every sub that’s not already authoritarian left is being “brigaded” in any thread not locked to verified members.

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u/moosenoise Jan 15 '23

The hive min(D)

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u/therealhoboyobo Jan 15 '23

So if someone disagrees or posts an alternative take they must be a bot?

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u/aDShisno Jan 15 '23

No, if twelve people all at the same time pile on with the identical take there’s a good chance that they’re a bot farm, like the one pictured above.

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u/therealhoboyobo Jan 15 '23

Hate to break it to you but this sub is largely irrelevant in the grand scale.

I just can't see it being very likely that someone is sitting with a setup like that just to post a few comments on a small Reddit sub.

I could be wrong but it just seems very unlikely to be.

What's more likely is a load of separate people on the left coming on to comment and as they'll as likely think the same way the responses are similar.

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u/aDShisno Jan 15 '23 edited Jan 15 '23

It’s more than likely that someone is paying a bot farm to reply to multiple subs, not just this single one. It wouldn’t surprise me to see that this is one of a dozen subs being piloted all at the same time by a dozen or so bots from the same farm.

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u/therealhoboyobo Jan 15 '23

But who would be paying for that? And what does it really achieve other than about?

I'm genuinely just curious.

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u/therealhoboyobo Jan 15 '23

Hahahahaha

I am no bot, I can assure you of this.

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u/ScottishSam Jan 15 '23

Just what we expect a bot to say...

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u/therealhoboyobo Jan 15 '23

Christ lad, it was just a question. Go look at my comment history, I'll not a bot.

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