subs will get about three to four hours of thousands of updoots and comments and then get nuked by the mods

This was a tactic made common by Gallowboob. He would do this on every major sub he moderated, but with even more nastiness.

He’s post, wait to see if it got enough upvotes, if it did not he’d delete and repost. Constantly. Until his posts got to the top.

He did this across many of the largest subredddits and turned it into a paid job where he’d advertise for others using this same patterns.

Even worse, he’d delete others posts if they were doing too well too quickly and repost as his own.

Dude is one of the pillars of what destroyed Reddit.