u/svix_ftw wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
100% agree with what you are saying. But based on the downvotes, it doesn't seem like people want to accept the evidence that's right in front of them.
u/michaelnovati replied ·
I try to be on guard here with activity that is provable disingenuous but there is a lot of fake accounts on here that carefully manipulate conversations with the intention of advertising.
You'll see accounts popup that talk very middle-road and casually drop in bootcamp names or program names, etc...
There's one top bootcamps you hear about a lot here that has had comments that go from 0 to +20 or from +20 to 0 (if it's negative) in minutes.
I can't do anything about voting manipulation as a mod, but Reddit's AI has improved a lot and it seems to wipe out these fake accounts after a few weeks of suspicious activity or when an account makes a mistake and they don't get their VPN and virtual machines right to evade the algorithm.
It's why you have to be vigilant on here.