Comment by zingababba

It's pretty bad. I've also been very interested in the non-organic way certain topics get introduced. It's often chains of non-organic posts/replies that will seed topics in a way that makes it seem like opinion 1 is proposed then someone else will come in and make some obvious fallacy in a counter-argument, then another post will respond calling them out in some inflammatory way. This kicks off a cycle of user engagement either defending or attacking one of the participants. However the entire initial chain of 3-4 back and forth is all bots just subtly guiding topics.