A recent post by AntiTrumpAlliance moderator niqueSnowflake fingered MarchAgainstTrump and its leaders for all kinds of “suspicious activity,” including “botting [the use of bots], manipulation of Reddit’s algorithms, and admission of coordinated upvote brigading.” In other words, the hijacking of Reddit’s core promise: that people will get to “upvote” what they like and help determine what becomes popular as a result. (Pictures of dogs often make it to the homepage). What’s more, niqueSnowflake wrote, posts on MarchAgainstTrump are driving spam to Reddit’s homepage without doing the actual beneficial work of helping to organize people off-line.

In a series of private messages with The Daily Beast, niqueSnowflake described MarchAgainstTrump’s tactics as being similar to the those of the enormously popular pro-Trump subreddit called the_donald, which prides itself on an unending stream of (sometimes offensive) memes.

“It seems more like [the MarchAgainstTrump subreddit] just want to recreate the_donald’s success with the anti-Trump sentiment,” niqueSnowflake said. “However, I believe that’s actually harmful to the community. The sub[reddit] does nothing to help organize or educate. It just fans the flames, drives more divisions, and spams anti-Trump porn to the front page. We’re better than this.”