It doesn't take much browsing on r/Conservative to notice that while there are many, many users making posts, there's a small handful that post MUCH more than anyone else. This may be normal for some subs, but it kind of stuck out because the two that post the most, post a LOT. I decided to track all of the new posts on that sub for a few weeks and see how the numbers shake out (first image). I was also curious about which sites were being linked to by the most active user (second image).
Edit: Posted with a burner account for obvious reasons.
Posted by Ok-Stand-2128
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Considering they can write, they probably account for 50 % of the brain too.
Would be nice to compare it to other political subs. Also wonder if someone of these people post under different usernames to opposite political affiliations to further drive decisiveness
Russia works in mysterious ways……
Do Russian bots count as “users”?
I think we call those “bots.”
The whole thing is an influence operation, a sub full of shills and bots
Interesting that neither of them posted on Nov 1st
From a data viz perspective, it might be cool for your second plot, the Pareto plot, was of all of the top posters, as a stacked bar of the sites they link to.
It would also be cool if the first plot showed more than just the two usernames.
It’s a nutjob echo chamber enabled by fuckbag mods. Expectations are low.
I wonder what was happening in politics on the days where the blue bars are the highest. And what was going on on November 1st?
Reddit’s got to start paying these two for their content provision.
Not to try and do whataboutisms, cause this is obv bad and could very easily be evidence of bots/influence, but I bet you’d find this is the case on a whole lot of subs
Newsmax: “fuck you, I’m eating”
Glad there is data to back up what feels pretty obvious. It’s funny when you see an actual American conservative comment in there
I’m surprised the most posted site is NY Post and not something more extreme (but then again breitbart is #2).
Is there any evidence that these posters are affiliated with conservative organizations, like the Babylon Bee or something?
A few follow up questions for anyone who has interest:
1. Are these usernames also on other platforms/elsewhere online?
2. Are they typically linking to the same websites to drive traffic?
3. Do the posts align with business hours (eg it’s their job to do this)? Etc
Hate to say it but there’s many power users on all political subs who sell their accounts after farming karma. Or they are paid/ bots!
arr slash conservative is no exception
That sub is super aggressively censored. You’ll see posts where 50% of the comments are removed.
If you post a comment that goes against the conservative narrative it immediately gets removed.
most largish reddit subs are like this, although they may hide it behind alt accounts too. i think awkwardtheturtle modded over 200 subs, this sun is clearly much less a democracy and much more a heavy-handed controlled gated system.
Remember when Ghilaine Maxwell was a very influential Reddit Mod, being a mod on several of the top news related subs so she could remove any unwanted news stories and promote any others that helped her/them?
Wait until you hear about Wikipedia
That’s pretty much the case for most subs and social media. A fraction of users generates the content, rest are just arguing in comments at most. And usually about topics and events that are no interest to anyone in real life.
That’s because they ban anyone who questions anything posted
these are paid bots, does no one remember digg? it was the same fate lol
There are two main subs for Canada, /r/canada (conservative leaning) and /r/onguardforthee (liberal leaning). Apparently r/canada wasn’t “right” enough for some users so a now defunct r/canadasub was created, and I swear 90% of the posts were from that Ask4MD account. There’s no way it isn’t a bot or paid account.
it’s sad how one of them’s entire shtick is posting anti-abortion articles. what a life.
This is some white hat shit and I’m here for it.