A warning about subreddit manipulation. Three prominent accounts and frequent commenters have been suspended from Reddit, all were accounts I frequently suspected of manipulating conversation and/or personally attacking people.

For 2. I don't know if this was one person or multiple people, but all three had distinct patterns in their posts and there is at least one currently active member with similar message structure and tone. I don't know the reasons for being removed and I don't want to speculate beyond what the link I pasted from Reddit says. But I can give the patterns: \- personal attacked in comments, i.e. name calling, turning disagreements into personal attacks about intelligence \- all three stated provable false information \- I believe all 3 claimed to be bootcamp grads \- I didn't perceive any of the users as blatantly or obviously pushing any specific bootcamp or program \------ Outside of Reddit I was sent some information about someone at a bootcamp asking people to comment on a thread, seemed innocent enough, but when those people ask other people it could appear to be manipulation too. I worked at Facebook for 8 years, I worked on tools to monitor and deal with bad actors. Reddit has tremendous amounts of forensic information on who is doing what and if you have multiple accounts or are using fake accounts to manipulate conversations - they know. The problem is that this sub is too small for small-scale manipulation to trigger any of that... unless those accounts get reported.