Yesterday I asked if anyone with the technical skill could provide proof of what I assumed was the obvious "botnet" upvoting all the posts in /r/the_donald.
Out of many, one user actually found the script that is being used by Trumpsters in conjunction with reddit enhancement suite and grease monkey to game the reddit upvote system.
It adds these two buttons to the top of RES. I installed the script and tested it to verify that it worked and it wasn't some spam - guess what?
It works.
If you click "Upvote all" in /r/the_donald (or any other sub like /r/hillaryforprison) and it slowly scrolls down the screen and downvotes everything. If you go to the new queue of /r/enoughtrumpspam or /r/politics and "downvote all" - every single post gets downvoted.
So that explains a lot of what has been happening here, but that's not all it does.
It also has a section dedicated to targeting specific reddit users for downvotes, and specifically targeting the_donald redditors for upvotes. Will any of the people named in the bot for upvotes be banned?
The botnet script is being posted repeatedly on 4chan/8chan - I assume it has been in use for quite a long time.
For months, the conspiracy mongers on reddit have been throwing accusations of shilling and downvote brigades at everyone who disagreed with them - without proof. Yet now we actually have proof they are the ones doing it.
But will anyone do anything about it? This has been going on for months and months. Don't hold your breath.
tl;dr
I found a script that Trumpsters are using to:
1) Upvote all posts that flatter Trump, helping to push all the the_donald posts to the front page.
2) Downvote all posts they don't like, massively downvoting /r/enoughtrumpsspam and /r/politics etc.
3) Target specific redditors for mass downvotes.
4) Target specific redditors for mass upvotes.
Link to original 8chan post.
Screencaps of the post for when it is removed: First ...... second.
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