Daily Bard Digest 2024-07-05

At 2024-07-06T00:25:16+00:00 on /r/ModSupport with a score of 4 points:

There was a group that did this same thing in 2015 using the same tech that powers grammar correction and autocorrect and text prediction software to farm karma, and populated their efforts in sports subreddits & game subreddits - anywhere that is antagonistic & polarised and also has catchphrases or cliches that could be reused over and over. They farmed accounts to use to astroturf pro-Republican / Donald Trump content, and they did it in volume.

By 2020 they had enough live trolls who had a sixpack of sockpuppets each.

Now, Reddit has CQS & the Reputation filters, as well as Crowd Control. Those are going to be the bulwark against a deluge of astroturfing this election season.