▲ 157 ▼ New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion (medium.com) submitted 2 years ago by sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf to c/technology@beehaw.org 27 comments fedilink hide all child comments Cross posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9762996
[–] Stillhart@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) I've never heard of "Game of Trolls". Guess I'm OOTL permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] millie@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago It was a subreddit for trolls to share their trolling with one another and see who could score the highest. You'd get points for things like people having a meltdown, rapid-responding, posting responses of certain lengths, all sorts of stuff. The more believable or rage-inducing the troll thread, the higher the score. It got shut down fairly quickly. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] millie@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago It was a subreddit for trolls to share their trolling with one another and see who could score the highest. You'd get points for things like people having a meltdown, rapid-responding, posting responses of certain lengths, all sorts of stuff. The more believable or rage-inducing the troll thread, the higher the score. It got shut down fairly quickly. permalink fedilink source parent