A determined minority can control internet discourse by essentially spamming and bumping low effort threads and pushing relevant content off the front page. It's (supposedly) a technique that Stormfront consciously employed to pull 4chan right. Works particularly well on sites with chronological ordering. Irrelevant on reddit since low-effort posts are going to be upvoted anyway.
Is that when a forum about a thing becomes about a different thing? Or is it more specific
A determined minority can control internet discourse by essentially spamming and bumping low effort threads and pushing relevant content off the front page. It's (supposedly) a technique that Stormfront consciously employed to pull 4chan right. Works particularly well on sites with chronological ordering. Irrelevant on reddit since low-effort posts are going to be upvoted anyway.