[wsb_mod2]

The site itself leans left, I wouldn't call that manipulation, simply people voting on content they like.

However, you are onto something.

Almost every single post on r/MurderedByAOC is made by u/LrlOurPresident, and those posts hit the front page on a nearly daily basis.

[BitwiseFool]

Funny you mention u/LrlOurPresident, as I was tempted to mention that user specifically but didn't so my post wasn't too wordy. Their previous account IrlOurPresident was banned for manipulation but the admins don't seem to care in this situation.

[numpad0]

Reddit corporate is exceptional at making you driven and angry, literally "engaged" with the website. Keeping Reddit account for fun stuffs only or leaving Reddit altogether, for couple months to years, or to never to return, is a great idea at every point of baseline spacetime that the Earth possibly traverse through.

Don't you think those Redditors are a bit too often bit too dumb to argue with? They ARE! 9/10ths are corporate shills and half of them are bots and the rest are complete boneheads, yeah yeah I agree wholeheartedly. Why not relieve yourself of duties and use that extra time to morally ascend yourself a bit? Watch them run into walls and cry from couple miles away. MSMs are gonna cover them, you won't be missing single bit of it.

Just quit. Click "logout". Going back is as easy as buying a pack of cigarettes and lighting it.

[iso1210]

The world itself leans left - at least compared with the US Left/Right divide, and younger people (who are more likely to be on reddit) lean left.

Obviously the site itself leans left.

[BitwiseFool]

>"Obviously the site itself leans left."

There's a difference between a large amount of users who lean left making posts and comments that align with their views and what looks to be an obviously coordinated effort from a few dozen powermods and powerusers who seem to work 365 days a year to shape the content and discourse of the site through what appears on the frontpage and in the default subreddits.

[throwaway0a5e]

It's pretty clear from things like Bernie, the rise of antiwork, etc, etc, the site doesn't exactly align with the mainstream DNC talking points nearly as nicely as the front page and popular subs would make you think.

If the NFL craps astroturfing all over the online sports community that still constitutes manipulation even if the occupants of the sites in question were marginally more predisposed to those ideas than the general population. What the mainstream left does to Reddit with their astroturfing is no different.

[achenet]

s/The world/The educated, english speaking westerners who post on reddit, generally found in Western Europe and North America/

I'm not sure Asia, Africa, and the Middle East are hugely fond of progressive politics.

[goodpoint]

> The world itself leans left

No, by definition, it does not lean in any direction on the political compass.

> at least compared with the US Left/Right divide

More precisely, the overton window of the US goes from center to the far right.

[Msw242]

When conservative subs (like the pro trump ones) started hitting r/all and r/popular, they were very quickly banned, using (unevenly enforced) rules.

It's well known that SRS engaged in brigading, but they'll never be held to the same standard as those with ideologies that are less sympathetic.

[michaelt]

> Almost every single post on r/MurderedByAOC is made by u/LrlOurPresident, and those posts hit the front page on a nearly daily basis.

Do you see the same content when browsing in an incognito window?

I ask because I've long suspected Reddit tracks even logged out users, and generates a front page showing them more of things that keep them on the site.