That sub has changed so much in the last year. Used to be more light-hearted, rallying around crappy bosses and laughing at the gall of an employer. Now it’s been taken over by more radical takes, going from “screw my boss”, “we should get more vacation time” to straightforward Marxist talking points and desires to abolish work. There’s a place for those discussions and they’re interesting to have, but it’s ruined th…
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#24I've come accross many posts from this subreddit that hit the front page. Let's just say I hope reddit is keeping an eye on foreign and domestic troll farms as many of the most popular posts seem suspiciously like fiction to me...
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You can say that about any popular sub, what would their motivation be? And is anything inauthentic about popular posts in that sub?
But there's really no way to know, and the natural trend towards extreme opinions is inherent as is. The game would be to push perspectives towards more extreme views over a longer period of time.
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You can say that about any popular sub, what would their motivation be? And is anything inauthentic about popular posts in that sub?
Social media has pretty much destroyed the fabric of western society, so theres that. I don't know that we need state actors to get involved in order for that to happen, it seems to work on it's own, but I can imagine if some actor was looking to create more tension and unrest, targeting and subtlety trolling large discussions would be pretty effective.
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If there is truly such a thing like a troll campaign, no form of geo lock will ever stop them, but most certainly you will stop legitimate users instead.
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#28That sub has changed so much in the last year. Used to be more light-hearted, rallying around crappy bosses and laughing at the gall of an employer. Now it’s been taken over by more radical takes, going from “screw my boss”, “we should get more vacation time” to straightforward Marxist talking points and desires to abolish work. There’s a place for those discussions and they’re interesting to have, but it’s ruined th…
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#29Some posts in that subreddit are genuine and I support them, but some others and mainly the comments, man, that is basically an edgy teen's communist era playground. One of the mods even said, that the subreddit is for socialists and communists and everybody else is just conservative.
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#30That sub has changed so much in the last year. Used to be more light-hearted, rallying around crappy bosses and laughing at the gall of an employer. Now it’s been taken over by more radical takes, going from “screw my boss”, “we should get more vacation time” to straightforward Marxist talking points and desires to abolish work. There’s a place for those discussions and they’re interesting to have, but it’s ruined th…
Is more vacation time really radical? Don’t US workers have much less than other Western countries?