Some good comments here . Very interesting. Top post:
Answer: It was determined and made public that the majority of posts on that sub are from 3 accounts all based in Russia and are promoted by an army of bots.
The ones leaving were bots removed by Reddit
EDIT - wow, did not expect this to get so much attention and awards - thank you!
Confirmed by whom? Go ahead and keep waiting for that press release from Reddit about how their site is full of bots and spam…
spez. You can look it up yourself. Not going to be your personal chatbot.