They have a decent amount of post and/or comment karma but then their posts and comments aren't there, or there's just a few, like 4, and the amount of karma gained from them can't account for their total
Meaning, they're posting and deleting everything they do
No one who is legit does this
Ever.
4chan veterans are the web elites.
They know perfectly how to spot shills, and their highly edgy lingo is made exactly to polarize user behaviour into in/out groups.
A shill will either back off or go overboard trying to merge, and will likewise be identified from the first post.
When T_D was created as a 4chan offspring it was the shit in 2016. Then apes joined the party. I remember in 2016 you could call out the JQ and be upvoted, now it would get you banned because Trump touched the wrong wall.
Much like in china you had the bloodiest political logic, and it created some of the most amazing individual beings and techniques, which you don't hear about because they don't really care about fame. Warlike zones/situations create the strongest warrios by definition. and 4chan is the vietnam of the internet.
The JQ is making a comeback on Patriots.win I'm seeing more and more comments mention it and I throw in little comments here and there that mention Jews
I don't mine people's history because I think that's stalky and weird, but i do go to their page to check their karma and do a scan to see if they're harassing others with low quality garbage ad hom comments (an agitator) and I notice if they have no content. That's all. Yes I'm from reddit and other linksharing sites. I think 4chan and 8chan are toxic garbage that hurts my eyes and brain. Glad you like it.
Also, software would control this...a post or comment would have a 'save until' datetime, a spoil by... usually like 16-24 hours or so, or until a certain amount of karma either way....then the software would go back using an api or something and delete it
You wouldn't fit the pattern as you would no longer post, though.
Or they bought an account and then erased the history of the account because their speech/language/typing patterns would all of a sudden change.
true
thats me
well I thought it was rude to name names...
Although u/pkvi is sometimes cheap in my opinion he keeps the place dynamism going and that's a good thing. He also has great posts, too. One who tries often is allowed to miss some.
I don't really think he's likely a shill.
When you talk of other users is good behaviour to put u/ before, so as to not "talk behind shoulders". Netiquette.
I'm always backhanded, friends know i will never lose an occasion to mix it up a lil bit x)
This.
I just had a run-in with such an agent with alts, and he was stupid enough to step in with an alt defending his main alt in a thread. BOTH of them had medium karma, one a 2 month old acct and other 13 days old, but both claimed they deleted most of their posts to avoid being doxxed. Yeah? How normal is it for new accounts to delete all their posts after getting karma?
In the thread, the main agent was highly upvoted and his two opponents (me and another guy) were highly downvoted. Which showed I guess that he had many alts or some tool.
And that same agent is now in this thread using his same arguments here. Claiming that deleting all his disinfo posts to hide his disinfo history is merely sane and protective.
That mightn not be a big deal if they have low karma, but when you see hundreds of karm or thousands and....no content...I'm like ..what the f is this about then?
Indeed. My theory - which I commented on yesterday - is that they are account farmers. That of course leads to wondering how many such .win accounts are peddled to the political manipulators. If I had time and energy and knew the API I would write an investigative script to look for such suspicious accounts here.