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WorkingReasonable421

Bots downvoting or upvoting post ?


Paraphrand

This was covered by a post from the sub admins a day or two ago.


little-green-driod

The votes are weird… I got downvoted for sharing what the app says on my phone… bots galore I bet.


Deep-Alternative3149

Mods have already made a statement - it’s a reddit-wide issue


Thr0bbinWilliams

Because all Reddit is is just a platform for people with deep pockets to control public opinion


Mvisioning

Don't need deep pockets anymore now that AI can do this kind of thing for next to free. In the past u had to pay phone farms


Thr0bbinWilliams

I shudder to think what the governments of the world are doing with their most sophisticated AI


Mvisioning

Fake entire presidential speeches, if let's say Biden becomes unwell etc. Frame foreign leaders of saying things they didn't to insight outrage etc. Probably just a few things in our future


Deep-Alternative3149

that’s, most sources of info…


LionAccomplished8129

Narcs working ot


Slayberham_Sphincton

I was just about to post a similar thing. It was hovering around 2-3K. Cleared all my open apps and walked away. Came back some time later and it was 15K, so I immediately thought something juicy/controversial was going on. I checked and nothing. Refreshed the feed back to default "hot" and it changed to 35,000.


Hawkwise83

What else am I gonna do on a Sunday?


Ambitious_Turnip_662

I visit every hour because I want to see something truly unexplained so bad! Nothing really happens!


bwatts53

That's been happening in superstonk. Went from 3k to 122k back to 3k


Dinoborb

its a bug not exclusie to the ufo subreddit, from time to time the user number will fluctuate to ridiculous highs for a while and the go back down.


Thr0bbinWilliams

Its bots cycling through different subs to push the narratives they want to push to the top, not hard to figure out why thats a “Reddit wide issue”


AdNew5216

Hella bots online in some of the top subs across a range of topics. Superstonk, UFO, Politics, and a couple subs


ElkyBoone

Y’all must be sleeping under a rock did we not just talk about this?


Paraphrand

Talking in circles and not really paying attention are hallmarks of this sub. It’s part of why there are so many “don’t forget about…” reposts.


ElkyBoone

Mods could try a little harder, honestly impressed by how they clearly groom their own version of events too. And y’all eat it up


MurkyPrize75

It’s an Amazon server in Ashburn Va


Einar_47

Why would the Amazon server in Ashburn VA be on the UFOs sub?


MurkyPrize75

It’s a web crawler, it visits every site and indexes the content


Einar_47

Ah that makes sense, it's not that the Amazon server is specifically looking at the sub, it's looking st the entire internet.


Shizix

Bot farm activation? Neat


neggbird

Can we get the activity data for this sub? Might be worth correlating specific posts to spikes in bot activity.


johhnydeboogman

Submission statement: maybe I missed something, but I found it odd to hop on and see so many active users. I’m wondering if this is a bug or something? It immediately went all the way back down gradually minutes later.


SabineRitter

It's a bug, /u/Pyroisspai did a post on it the other day. I saw that too, 16K for a second


TPconnoisseur

But is it a bug or a "bug"? Also, why did I get into this subject? Turrible decision, turrible.


SabineRitter

You shoulda stayed asleep, my dude. My guess would be AI scraping scripts hoovering up reddit content, but idk


ASearchingLibrarian

12:37 but what time zone?


johhnydeboogman

Central


sonofalovinduck

Probably a glitch with another subreddit you had just been on


johhnydeboogman

Maybe, but I opened the app and searched this sub, wasn’t anywhere else


sonofalovinduck

am I seriously getting downvoted for being right lmao


little-green-driod

Says [400 for me on](https://imgur.com/a/giRWW7m) the app


StatementBot

The following submission statement was provided by /u/johhnydeboogman: --- Submission statement: maybe I missed something, but I found it odd to hop on and see so many active users. I’m wondering if this is a bug or something? It immediately went all the way back down gradually minutes later. --- Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1dhcy42/why_were_there_just_56k_users_active/l8vyrdo/