I hear conspiracy theorizing-types talk about how many shills there are online leaving comments and it just got me curious if there's any rational/evidence-based reason for thinking that this is really a thing? What makes people so confident they are dealing with "shills" and not just people who disagree with them? These views are fringe and controversial after all so I don't see why it couldn't just be normal and expected pushback...
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I have the same question. I'm pretty sure shills are a thing on reddit and other social media. I am not sure if this site has a big enough user base to bother with. I guess the great awakening and the larger communities might, but I'm not sure that conspiracies is a big enough community for them to bother with. With that said, I definitely see attempts to gate keep posed as a beneficial desire to not scare Normies away from this site. Maybe those gate keepers are shills, or maybe they just really hate those subjects enough to want to gate keep them.
Trust me any glowies / shills that were aware of this place when it was on reddit, and for a congress person to have mentioned it that's the case. They definitely would have sent people over here to shit it up. Not as many as say reddit/twitter type places but they would have sent some people here.