@Nastarana We've run a few tests where we'll post the identical link, but with different titles. Spelling Russia with an emoticon for the 'a' left that post untouched while it's twin, minutes apart, was heavily brigaded. Words that are obvious headline brigade bait are Russia, Seth Rich, Assange, wikileaks, and of course anything with Hillary or DNC.

that attract the minders? Posters could spell the keywords backwards if they knew what they were.

@thanatokephaloides I wouldn't say "irretrievably" though. Once we pinned the post it removes it from being able to show on Reddit's 'all' front page, but it does show on r/controversial front page, where it still took off and ended with 150+ upvotes and 2,500 views.

Not quite viral in the traditional sense, but it did get us another 50 subscribers and expand our exposure.

In spite of it all, we still see 600,000 page views a month, and between 2-3,000 unique visitors a day.

I agree it would be good to get more people cross-posting here too (C99 is on our sidebar) but most of what we're seeing is related to links being posted and all the action happens in the comments. More original writing and editorial/essays would help distinguish us from 95% of reddit.

A case study in how thoroughly Reddit has been corrupted by Shareblue:

This post, after 12 minutes: 14 upvotes, 23 views, and at 100%

After 34 minutes: 11 upvotes, 193 views, 59%

After 42 minutes: 1 upvote, 272 views, 51%

After 60 minutes: 0 upvotes, 383 views, 49%

When this was first dropped as a comment near the bottom of a thread yesterday, it got 44 upvotes. When it was first posted here it spiked to 14 upvotes and the top of our Hot page after minutes.

There's a concerted effort to control what people see, and they camp on r/rising. If we weren't here to pin posts that they successfully downvote off of a sub's hot page, few regulars would even see this. I assume this is repeated across the Bernie subs.

Reddit is broken.

That very wise man is you, your very own self, Thumb; and you are entirely right here.

Your last sentence in the above quote is missing a word, however: the word "irretrievably". Like Daily Kos before it, reddit has empowered mobs of asses/dicks to censor what the general public can and cannot find to read. Once this breaks out, -- and it clearly has on reddit -- there's no real way to un-do it.

So the crossposting that would do you the most good, in my humble opinion, would be worthwhile articles from "Way of the Bern" to places like c99 where the "team downvoter" death squads have no power.

Do I understand the situation correctly here?