You're right on. Everything you say it's absolutely correct. They attack everything they can, leave no stone unturned. And I also think the human shills sometimes are one and the same person, with multiple accounts. And they come at you from different angles, starting with downvoting and continuing with insults and denigrating you "haven't you ever been to school", as an example.

What I'm trying to do with linking content is avoid censorship, at least my comments can go thru. I use a nice catch phrase, I know they'll open the link. Then the image can be an animated gif, or some composite image I can quickly put together in photoshop. Nothing offensive, just straight to the point and I know it won't be taken down automatically by the reddit engine. Very hard to post links on reddit, it's trial and error. After a while I kinda know which sites are blacklisted, like BitChute, Rumble, NewsPuch, Zerohedge, etc.

I'll give it a try for a while, and let you know how it works. So far seems to work well, the shills are opening the links, I can tell because I get replies back. That tells this is a human, a bot will not open a link and scan a JPEG or a GIF and then leverage an image cognitive service. It can be done just like OCR text recognition, but very complex.