I see 2 main types of shills. I’m sure there are more:
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Shills that strait up attack us. Insult, bully, and all round try to discourage and demoralize.
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Shills that infiltrate, pretend to be one of us, but subvert the movement by spreading disinfo, and bait gullible people to fall for stupid fake stories. They weaponized our confirmation bias.
Are there terms for these different behaviours? I think it would be helpful to have terminology to distinguish between them.
Can you think of any other prominent forms of shilling that we should be looking out for?
Sandbaggers, disinfo shills.
One eats up your time and baits responses.
The other one slips in half-truths and is non-aggressive, racking up karma in order to influence the direction of a board.
CONSIDER:
Gentleperson’s Guide to Forum Spies
Thank you for that. I’ll definitely check out that guide.
Excited shill: EVERYTHING IS ALWAYS URGENT!!!??? GET IN HERE!!! ?
Gloomy shill: Nothing is good enough, always passing the blame. Contribute nothing substantive, usually don’t think but repeat what they hear.
Assassin shill: Always quick to insult in an effort to discredit. Never present articulate ideas.
Dopey shill: Lots of emojis and new age acronyms like LOL ?. A quick browse though a dopey shills comment or post history will definitely leave you dumber.
All shills have in common:
Lol that’s pretty fitting.
1: TRQLLS?
2: TRAITQRS?
Thanks for your input. It’s definitely an information war out there.
I don’t know. Why give them any consideration at all?
I know I say it to bother them, but it also happens to be 100% true...
Just them taking the time to post anything, means they are deathly afraid.
Winners don’t worry about what losers think. Are they acting like they won?
So you don’t fall for one of their traps. It’s very easy to do. You need to know what to watch out for.
Respectful disagree.
They have no traps. They have hurty words.
They are the equivalent of a fart in a hurricane.
They are also painfully obvious, so I’m fine to keep them all lumped in together.
They bury relevant information, the whole point of this forum.
Well couldn’t handshakes be easily sorted by Controversial and kept in one place until they show their true colors? Wouldn’t that help?
Weird. I don’t know all the ins and outs of why that might or might not be a good idea, but something to think about at least.
Great thing is that as far as shills are discussed, you can do you, and vice versa.
One thing we can all agree on, is whoever the shill, they are not a real woman.
If you really wanted to inflict damage on the movement you would start off be following along, agreeing with people, and establishing some cred within the community.
Then you can slowly inject falsehoods, and masquerade them as legitimate digs. People are reeeeaaalllly gullible when they see things that confirm their bias.
Before long, you can have non handshake accounts steering the community towards dead ends, or leading people down a false rabbit hole as a distraction, or to discredit the validly of the movement as a whole.
If you think that sounds far fetched, keep in mind that you presumably believe in “the plan”. Far stranger things have happened.
Hurr durr! Your handlebar mustache must be able to twirl on its own!
So sinister!
The quarantine is only for just the handshakes that clog up New.
Nothing about the other equally obvious shills that went under the radar with a noncommittal post here and there until they shook off the handshake.
One glance at their post history can tell you the deal about them.
They so obvs.
And let’s say these ding dongs could somehow lead some curious knowledgefags down a rabbit hole or three? So what? Most people here would have gone down them there rabbit holes anyway.
Also, and I can’t believe I have to mention this again, but...
You will never be a woman.
What are you smoking?