Reddit really is filled with mentally ill leftists
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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.