Just users from reddit mostly, as it seemed to be filled of them during the DAO hack on the subreddits of Ethereum and Ethtrader. I spent most my time there back then, seeing it being invaded just before the hack and months after it, made it impossible to want to stay there and read anything since you didn't know what was going on for sure with the amount of comments and paid upvotes, etc.
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that must have been crazy to witness..So, there were DAO shill agents posing as real fans?
Not posing, just commenting negatively on everything that was happening, blaming ethereum as a whole, spamming endless debates in echo-chambers with the control of many accounts controlling votes and which comments get viewed and which don't. Etc.
Who can say where they originated from and what their purpose was, but the big eth short on bitfinex prior to the hack was too coincidental and it seemed like it had been a planned "hack" to screw up the price for a couple days/weeks or purchase it back a lot cheaper by manipulating the market with planned pump and dumps. That's why I recommend everyone not to margin trade as these things happen very often in cryptocurrencies.