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In a thread about an important realization or discovery, post a joke.
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A dad pun or a clever quip. Any joke will do.
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Use bot accounts to upvote the joke to the top, reducing the gravity, seriousness and perceived worth of the entire thread enormously.
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If anyone complains about the joke, paint them as a prude; someone who takes things too seriously and 'can't take a little joke'.
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Yep, it's one of the most heavily deployed cabal tactics on reddit, if not the most deployed tactic.
It does show up here though and it does work here, just not as well as on reddit.
The procedure on sites without upvotes, or with alternate sorting, is to just post more jokes and more humorous replies to those jokes. Not as effective but still very effective.
It depends on the size of the board and user base.
Here you only got 1 or 2 clowns in deployment because observers are few and most of the user base is well aware of this happening and won't be nearly as affected.
On reddit is the opposite, so this works perfectly and has high ROI.