Reddit really is filled with mentally ill leftists
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I pick out shills by pattern recognition. For instance, shills often try to subvert a place by giving people who are considering participating a false impression of the kinds of people who participate. Knowing that, you can watch out for endless "You know what this place is?" kinds of comments. Then you know you've found a shill.
Non stop partisan or divisive posts don't trigger your shill alarm around here, huh. I bet if they were for the blue team they would
We are talking about two different things. You are talking about efforts to persuade a group while I am talking about using methods to corrode the user base and lessen their ability to reach others.
Lmao, I was called a shill here because I dont respond to my post's in a timely matter, as if I dont have a life outside the internet. I stopped caring what people think about what I think along time ago. For some reason, I am curious what other people do think though about things, and sometimes I feel the need to speak. I dont feel the need to respond.
Ive been called a troll a few times, for having an opinion, but this was the first time being called a shill.
I was pointing out the repeated, predictable tactic of mischaracterizing the makeup of a group in order to have readers take what they write less seriously and be less likely to engage with the discussions.
As for what you said, I think shills try hard to respond quickly in order to get views and let their vote brigades have a greater effect on which comments are near the top while people are still reading. That said, there are also reasons why a shill would wait a while:
to appear like an actual human, so having a consistent pattern as if being a person living in a particular time zone, having an actual life and not looking too much like a full-time worker,
to wait for central leadership to think things through and refine the narrative and game plan,
to post at a time when the bulk of the forum participants will see their (artificially upvoted) content and
to reduce the chances that anyone will still care enough to respond with a rebuttal.