Wanting the increased visibility of market time posting. My original post was made last night as soon as it happened as I honestly was a bit scared by it. I think we need to have more eyes on what's going on. Flagging currently as possible DD as it's evidence of a shift in shill activity and a direct threat to apes.

Original Post

Edit 4: Welcome to the early morning breakfast news crew, and thanks to r/rensole for bringing attention to this. For ease of access, here is a screenshot of original award comment

There have been a TON of documented instances of anonymous awards being given (usually the all seeing upvote) with text in the comment with a threatening tone, from vague threats of legal actions, to specifics about DFV communication with members of the Reddit.

There's a few conclusions that can be drawn from this.

1. Our mods have been doing a fantastic job and have severely limited shill access to their subs, and shills are getting desperate to try to find ways to get to us.

2. They are now spending money to have access to an unmoderated communication to try and intentionally intimidate individual apes. This is an escalation both in cost and messaging.

3. They are utilizing methods that work outside standard sub moderation which could be more difficult to report and get eyes on quickly.

4. They are saturating the forums with the all seeing upvote in hopes of trying to drown out what we had theorized was DFV's covert stamp of approval.

5. This absolutely REEKS of desperation. They are running out of options FAST.

IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED ANY SUCH MESSAGES TIED TO AWARDS, SCREENSHOT THEM

There's several other posts that have been made asking the same. I think a central hub of information for this feels important so we can keep people warned that this is both FUD and potentially illegal. Gather and document evidence. I don't know if it will be needed at any point, but it's the best policy to be ready just in case.

I know it's usually uncouth, but please do what you can to increase visibility on this one. They're starting to make this personal and anyone who posts is potentially a victim of this.

I'll include in edits any other threads that have been created that I know of on the same subject.

Apes. Strong. Together. Fuck these guys. Just doubled my floor to 20,000,000. Don't threaten me and my family.

Edit: formatting

Edit 2: post from u/lordtaylorian1973 post

Edit 3: just got my first awards messages on this post. screenshot

Edit 5: seeing quite a few comments about being worried about giving the all seeing upvote award ourselves, and worried that giving awards will look sus now. To be clear, we never had confirmation that DFV was using the ASU, and that confirmation is not really possible to get at this point. So don't worry if the cheap award is easy to give out. Just do it without sending vague threatening messages about legal consistences etc and you're fine.

Edit 6: (not financial advice, only my own opinion) do not spend money on buying awards to counter this. If you've got some money to spare, my opinion would be that you should spend it where it'll actually hurt the HFs in large scale ways. Surely you can think of a why you might be able to do that

Edit 7: second message for this post screenshot

Edit 8: more and more

Edit 9: from another user link and link

Edit 10: different user again link