MASSIVE BOTNET from the "Alt-Right" racists using script that upvotes all posts on the_donald, downvotes posts of targeted users

JPetermanRealityTour · 20日前

EDIT: The admins are aware of this. Don't flood their support queues!

~~Let the admins know!~~

RenaldoTohee · 20日前

I can't wait for the admins to do nothing about this.

anarchistbitch · 20日前

VOTE

MANIPULATION.

TomatoHere · 20日前

Oh. That might explain why I get downvotes after only a few seconds after my posts are submitted... Ping /u/fuck_fascists /u/dyzo-blue.

NeverDrumpf2016 · 20日前

I'M CONSIDERED A LIKELY SHILL!

Apatches · 20日前

Let's do this!

Vote manipulation is against the site rules
The definitions of vote manipulation are:

Using multiple accounts, voting services, or any other software to increase or decrease vote scores.
Asking people to vote up or down certain posts, either on Reddit itself or through social networks, messaging, etc. for personal gain.
Forming or joining a group that votes together, either on a specific post, a user's posts, posts from a domain, etc.

.3. This script being used

Is software used to increase and decrease vote scores.
Posted on the social networks, 4chan and 8chan, asking to upvote or downvote certain subs.

Besides brigading obvious friendly / unfriendly subs

The group then upvotes and downvotes specific subreddit and users' posts.

This is vote manipulation, admins.

Autumnal_Haze · 20日前

Don't we have the best, most fastidious, most investigative mods, folks? We do. We have the best, hardest working mods.

imnoidiot5 · 20日前

Quite sad that they have to resort to using shit like this to get stuff to /r/all. No wonder they threw a hissy fit when the admins changed the algorithm.

I hope stupid fucking antics like this don't get RES kicked from Reddit once and for all. It might be the game changer, you know. Stupid fucking Trumpettes don't realize they're ruining Reddit even beyond the elections. Morons.

trevize1138 · 20日前

Trump's American support comes from the poorly educated. Therefore, it's safe to assume all this scripting was done by the best and brightest the Kremlin has to offer.

bob1689321 · 20日前

Check out this conversation I had with a Trumper yesterday. He admitted that he was going to start a voluntary botnet to "balance out" /r/politics. Of course the rat deleted his comments, but not before I screencapped them

http://imgur.com/a/5QvHd

majorgeneralporter · 20日前

R I G G E D

Rowenstin · 20日前

And despite all the scripts, the walling of their safe space, the bots andthe cries of shill, Trump had to pay for ads on Reddit. Isn't that the same as Trump telling the_donald that their shitposting is subpar and ineffective?

AnalyticalAlpaca · 20日前

/R/THE_DONALDFORQUARANTINE

LOCK

IT

UP

THETEH · 20日前

Nice detective work! Can add "cheating the system" to the already existing "it's a hate group" on the list of reasons the sub might deserve to join the "blacklisted" invisible subs.

Knowing Reddit there would be a colossal shitstorm about censorship if the sub was indeed hidden though. I wonder what other possible actions Reddit could take. Perhaps new ways to detect voting patterns that are clearly and obviously targeted vote manipulation?

Record_Was_Correct · 20日前

Will this make it to the top of /r/conspiracy? (It won't)

selfabortion · 20日前

It would be pretty shitty if vote manipulation caused /r/the_Cuckold to get shut down but the rampant bigotry and threats of violence were insufficient, but I guess you take what you can get

CTR_Regional_Manager · 20日前

SHUT.IT.DOWN

VelvetElvis · 20日前

Did you let the admins know?

That's not a botnet btw.

AzraelKans · 20日前

I knew it. this explains the 2000 votes in a second in every post.

PM_ME_UR_SPORK_GIRL · 20日前

Oh dear God please let this be the windfall that gets those cancerous malcontents off this website.

wrtChase · 20日前

I think this is something reddit admins could feasibly detect with a little bit of analytics querying and retroactively ban. Human behavior is much more stochastic, so constructing a time-series of differences can give you insight (moreso the more it's used)

SET @vote_type="upvote", @subreddit="the_donald", @lower_s=0.300, @upper_s=0.650;
SELECT prior.user_id,
prior.vote_id,
prior.timestamp,
next.timestamp,
timestampdiff('second', prior.timestamp, next.timestamp) 
FROM user_votes `prior`
LEFT JOIN (
    SELECT user_id, vote_id, timestamp
    FROM user_votes
    WHERE subreddit = @subreddit 
        AND vote_type = @vote_type
) `next`
    ON (prior.user_id = next.user_id 
        AND next.vote_id = (
            SELECT min(vote_id) FROM user_votes `compare`
            WHERE compare.vote_id > prior.vote_id
            AND compare.user_id = next.user_id
            AND subreddit = @subreddit
            AND vote_type = @vote_type
        )
    )
WHERE prior.vote_type = "upvote"
    AND prior.subreddit = @subreddit
    AND next.vote_id is not null
GROUP BY prior.user_id, prior.vote_id
HAVING timestampdiff('second', prior.timestamp, next.timestamp) 
    BETWEEN @lower_s AND @upper_s

platocplx · 20日前

Im starting to also think the number of subs they have may not be legit either Someone should probably investigate that and see whats going on.

houseofleaves1066 · 20日前

Wow, good find.

dngrs · 20日前

wtf they can target specific users

I wonder what tools trolls backed by governments use. These guys are just 4chan and look what they have.

trevize1138 · 20日前

Reported!

TheDilma · 20日前

"high energy"

berniebrah · 20日前

I'm just disappointed I didn't make the shill list.

WuTangTy · 20日前

They're truly fighting the good fight

RandomDudeOnReddit · 20日前

THEY OUTSOURCE THEIR OWN SUPPORTERS

THEY OUTSOURCE THEIR OWN UPVOTES

THEY OUTSOURCE THEIR OWN MEMES

I am unable, that is all.

AncillaryIssues · 20日前

The Ron Paul brigades had a similar bot in previous years. It would automatically downvote any criticism of Ron Paul from a list of flagged users.

jakibaki · 20日前

That explains why my troll-post (with only negative comments) got upvoted to 13 points before it was deleted.

MostlyCarbonite · 20日前

I have to be pedantic, sorry: this is not a botnet, this is just a script that lets users vote en masse. A botnet is a large number of computers that are spread out and act in coordination based on a signal being sent via some control pathway (how that happens I'm not entirely sure).

sarcastroll · 20日前

Can /r/the_donald finally go the way of coontown?

Seriously- it's the same mentality, same people running the damned thing.

Just pull the plug already.

TheShadowCat · 20日前

This has been around since the last election, only it was in support of Ron Paul. It was nicknamed the liberty bot, and I was one of the "victims".

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/u17eq/how_bots_silence_ron_paul_critics_and_threaten/

Quetzythejedi · 20日前

Does this break any of Reddit's TOS? Doesn't sound like it would serve any purpose besides vote manipulation if this is allowed.

DragonPup · 20日前

/u/NebraskaGunOwner is on the upvote list. How unsurprising.

NotASucker · 20日前

Anyone who looks at the subscriber patterns noticed this a long time ago. Rather suspect pulses of subscriber amounts changing. Most of the time, you won't see an additional 10k people subscribe in one day.

usaff22 · 20日前

This is /r/bestof material.

imnoidiot5 · 20日前

This is a very good find. Did you let the admins know?

ITS_JUST_SATIRE_BRO · 20日前

LOCK

THEM

UP

Walter_Malone_Carrot · 20日前

I don't think we can do anything, but the 2nd amendment people, they might be able to do something.

thatpj · 20日前

The Trumpets were behind CTR all along! :)

frobalt · 20日前

Running $("div.up").first() in the console throws an error saying that first isn't a function. $("div.up") shows the next upvote button in the console. $("div.up").click() clicks the upvote button. So either that script wouldn't work, I'm missing something or reddit admins have already broken the script.

Edit: I'm going to assume the thing I'm missing is greasemonkey.

r3ll1sh · 20日前

/r/the_donald: complain about fraudulent voting during election, proceed to vote fraudually on reddit.

Wobbly_ · 20日前

Which is why Trumps AMA went from 15k upvotes down to 2k after the admins negated all the botted votes lol.

TheSlopingCompanion · 20日前

Knew it all along. Guarantee it- it goes deeper too. Paid.

Funny funny stuff, tiny people who live in tiny worlds, with tiny ideas and tiny minds. I pity them.

This isn't a political discussion it is a matter of intelligence. If you honestly support trump; you are unintelligent and a part of the problem.

Shill_Valentine · 20日前

Being in that downvote list would be a badge of honour. I'm genuinely jealous of you guys

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Jeffy29 · 20日前

DELETE THAT SUB!

satosaison · 20日前

What the fuck, I am not on the shill list. I still at least as hard as u/dyzo-blue

tablepancake · 20日前

I'M THE BEST AT UPVOTES, EVERYBODY SAYS SO, BELIEVE ME

ChooseWisely72 · 20日前

Nice, now I can downvote and hide those stupid posts even less!

IBYMBYBMYL · 20日前

/r/the_Cheeto banned when?

TheBeardedMarxist · 20日前

So is it just automatically using their one vote or does the script use multiple accounts?

Skyblue_Aardvark · 20日前

Crooked Trumpsters. Tch tch.

Skyblue_Aardvark · 20日前

Can we start chanting "HIGH ENERGY!!!!" and "BAN THEM!!!!" now?

EagleDarkX · 20日前

So they're not nearly as popular as they think they are?

Lol.

ynvaser · 20日前

You don't know what the fuck a botnet is, do you?

AutoModerator · 20日前

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[deleted] · 20日前

They are even doing it on Disqus. Go to the comments in this article. Look at frankgrey765's comment, its the top one with the NBC link. All his upvotes are from accounts with no comments and painfully fake usernames. The link leads to malware

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/292572-trump-vows-no-amnesty-but-we-work-with-them

phpdevster · 20日前

Ah right. When you can't get anywhere with your intellectual deficiencies, just yell really loud to make up for it.

GetYourZircOn · 20日前

I can't believe they banned r/fatpeoplehate yet this shit is allowed to exist

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