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?
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?