r/SipsTea • u/Previous_Month_555 • 4h ago

Feels good man Russian disinformation bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple Russian data centers.

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u/InfamousEvening2 4h ago edited 4h ago

~~12 hour~~ 8 hour window of zero posts.

edit - my initial comment was out by a handful of hours

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u/Fiyah_Crotch2 4h ago

I just took a look, 8 hours of radio silence for a subreddit with a 700k population is nuts.

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u/MrKingsport 3h ago

Years ago, like close to a decade, a mod from there got mad at me in another sub and mass-banned me from a ton of subs specifically conservative ones which is weird cause I didn't visit those, ever.

I ran the old snoopsnoo on his account and I swear he was locked up in an instittion with internet access. Flat out posting for 16 hours a day, always the same 16, never stopping even on the weekends. Universally asleep for the same 8 hours every night. It was uncanny. I remember like 1 day in 6 months he had any posts inside that 8 hour window.

He could not let go of anything would just respond to get the last word relentlessly. It was identical to my family's behavior. Like perfectly identical. Just neurotic need to win even when provably factually wrong.

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u/InstructionFinal5190 3h ago

One would go so far to say, almost bot like?

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u/myfuckingstruggle 3h ago

And you don't think it was an ai bot? Sounds like one

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u/Honest-Resist-7676 3h ago

Close to a decade ago? Mod to multiple subreddits? Gotta be a dude, my dude. Occam's razor n stuff. Russia has prisoners who can't do manual labor, so it would probably be pennies per day to give them internet (not paying salary) and unleash the locked in inmates into the web with a clear goal: stir shit up in the west.

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u/LumpyJones 3h ago

I'd guess 2 people using the same account with 8 hour shifts at the russian troll farm, and 8 hours off to give the illusion it's one person who sleeps.

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u/freerangetacos 3h ago

Do AI bots have operating hours?

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u/Mediocre-Wrongdoer14 3h ago

If they are programmed to.

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u/cybender 3h ago

Union break beep boop

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u/Turence 3h ago

A decade ago?