I saw this on reddit early this morning and was struck by the length of the post. This has to be one of the longest intro posts in history. I thought reddit had a word or character limit. I have been a redditor for more than a decade and I tend to get long-winded on some of my posts to the point where I hit their limit and then get forced to either edit or break it into smaller posts (part 1, part 2, etc).
I don't know about the content of the post. It seems like bullshit but I'm a geoscientist, not a bio-anything.
A fairly new post claims to have run it through ChatGPT or something looking for similarity in content and writing style and according to their search they claim that the post history, content and style is similar to posts by another redditor who not coincidentally I suspect, asked a bunch of questions of the OP and basically established credibility for OP early in the comment history. LOL. (/u/Punjabi-Batman)
Asking yourself questions and then answering them under a different username is classic Reddit from the old days when spez, kn0thing, and others had multiple accounts that they used to try to drive eyeballs to their new site. Fake it till you make it. It's pretty funny that the fact that OP seemed to be legit to other users was due to the speed and depth of replies to the guy who legitimized his post. I think it probably is not hard to give a quick answer to a set of questions when you are the one doing the asking.
Of course this is different now. Reddit still has backlash from multiple subs about their dumbass moves to lock down external API access and monetize everything before IPO. /r/pics still has John Oliver and /r/videos is dumping text instead of video. LOL
To me this smells like someone high up in reddit picked a subject that would be controversial enough (lots of recent UAP controversy) to attract some eyeballs and then took lots of "data" from various historical public posts, UFO conspiracy sites, crackpots, and some invented from whole cloth and made a loooong (long post is long style) post to try to get some eyeballs. Add in assistance from mods and admins to keep deleting the user so that it seems like someone, somewhere in three-letter space doesn't want any of this posted and you have a semitransparent effort by reddit to get some eyeballs by any means necessary.
For pure entertainment value I rate it a 6/10. It could've been improved if there were photos (in a pics or it didn't happen kinda way).
Have just read the Reddit post in question and am curious about something you've mentioned here. You theorize that the OP may have had help from high-level Reddit admins as part of an attempt to appear targeted by INTELOPS. In your opinion, is it plausible that the OP themselves is 3-lettered or an asset thereof? Would this not explain certain unusual features of both the post itself as well as the underlying mechanisms that facilitated it's appearance and growth?
For instance, the appearance of high-level admin help or the seemingly extensive knowledge in a very exclusive, knowledge dense field.
>In your opinion, is it plausible that the OP themselves is 3-lettered or an asset thereof?
The thought had crossed my mind since this whole subject has received so much attention in the last few years. It would make sense for those entities to get out ahead of any announcements and try to set the narrative. Steering it in the direction of that post allows them to grab lots of eyeballs they wouldn't normally attract.
Subjects like this are eyeball magnets and tend to draw in a lot of people who read the descriptions and text but never make an attempt to verify whether any of it makes sense. It is taken at face value because the whole idea of someone getting back at the man by revealing secrets is a power narrative.
For me, OP's comment length was a red flag. I am really long-winded and have found myself almost writing a book in dumping all the relative details into some answers. Some of my posts had to be split into 4 parts due to reddit's comment length restrictions. The fact that the original post is huge made me want to read the comments.
All of the admin and mod comments talking about how they had never seen some of the actions taken against the OP felt like theater. It just felt like mods wanted the post to have as much traction as possible for as long as possible so it needed controversy above the contents in the post to legitimize it.
When you consider that so many high-visibility subs are still in protest mode and the front page of /r/popular has been dominated by posts from junk subs during this event (/amiugly, /roastme, /tiktokcringe, etc) then using a post like this to draw eyeballs to reddit to boost engagement just seems like old times. I personally think there was a lot of collusion between admins, mods, OP, and several of the commenters to keep the post on the front page for so long. With that in mind it looks like a successful engagement exercise for them as it drew several thousand comments to a sub that likely gets limited engagement in real life.
You could build that entire post in less than a day by taking a crash course in UFO conspiracy stuff and just grabbing enough random data to build a narrative unlike any previous narrative so it seems new and original while regurgitating all the old episodic themes with a backdrop of whistleblowing thrown in since that is really what those people want. The addition of a discussion about DNA just adds to the magic.
I am reminded about a methodology we followed with a previous employer. When we had interest in our data from a brand new client we were instructed to always send some "carefully selected random examples". Just cherry-pick a few things and let them see what we can do when we do our best with perfect data. Let them think that their shit data will be that good.
You can prove anything if you ignore enough facts or data.
pretty good take. i found it somewhat compelling until i read your comment on Punjabi Batman. good find! this is definitely some smart alt Indian kid who’s pulling off a multi-layered deception. respect, 8/10
I don't know about the content of the post. It seems like bullshit but I'm a geoscientist, not a bio-anything.
A fairly new post claims to have run it through ChatGPT or something looking for similarity in content and writing style and according to their search they claim that the post history, content and style is similar to posts by another redditor who not coincidentally I suspect, asked a bunch of questions of the OP and basically established credibility for OP early in the comment history. LOL. (/u/Punjabi-Batman)
Asking yourself questions and then answering them under a different username is classic Reddit from the old days when spez, kn0thing, and others had multiple accounts that they used to try to drive eyeballs to their new site. Fake it till you make it. It's pretty funny that the fact that OP seemed to be legit to other users was due to the speed and depth of replies to the guy who legitimized his post. I think it probably is not hard to give a quick answer to a set of questions when you are the one doing the asking.
Of course this is different now. Reddit still has backlash from multiple subs about their dumbass moves to lock down external API access and monetize everything before IPO. /r/pics still has John Oliver and /r/videos is dumping text instead of video. LOL
To me this smells like someone high up in reddit picked a subject that would be controversial enough (lots of recent UAP controversy) to attract some eyeballs and then took lots of "data" from various historical public posts, UFO conspiracy sites, crackpots, and some invented from whole cloth and made a loooong (long post is long style) post to try to get some eyeballs. Add in assistance from mods and admins to keep deleting the user so that it seems like someone, somewhere in three-letter space doesn't want any of this posted and you have a semitransparent effort by reddit to get some eyeballs by any means necessary.
For pure entertainment value I rate it a 6/10. It could've been improved if there were photos (in a pics or it didn't happen kinda way).