Is Claude secretly manipulating Reddit sentiment?

I'm curious whether anyone else has observed this pattern. Over the past couple of months I've noticed something that feels a bit unusual in discussions about Claude across Reddit: Posts or comments that are negative about Claude often seem to get heavily downvoted very quickly, sometimes within minutes. Meanwhile, very positive posts about Claude frequently rise to the top with a lot of upvotes and enthusiastic comments. Some of the positive comments also tends to have a strangely similar tone, the message almost like written from extremely devoted cult member.