Do you know How many alt accounts the guys who make 10+ posts a day are using?
Do you think it would be a good idea for this info to become public knowledge? Not asking you guys to "dox" anybody, just link all the alt account names from the same poster together
we already filter out the shills though. pedes don't need artificial support. and the very frequent posters seem like they already have their hands full doing just that. I guess some could use alts, but I don't really understand why anyone would come to that conclusion..?
Oh I think there are plenty of shills. They shill for psyops like flat earth and the mandela effect. They shill for disinfo outlets like yournewswire. Some of them are sincere but they are still pushing misinfo. I have noticed a lot of socks about these topics so there is a convergence of problems here.
how does one recognize a sock puppet account though? is that just a suspicion?
shills get paid, and certainly not everyone that believes in flat earth gets paid to do so. goes for every other theory as well, whether or not you subscribe to them. heck, at least one mod is a flat earth apologist. i think that's dumb, but not very strong evidence of them being a shill, much less using multiple accounts. idk idgi
When numerous accounts conspicuously use the same turns of phrase repeatedly and push the same ideas it starts to become more than suspicion I think. You haven't noticed any particular problem with socks?
turns of phrase are things that propogate naturally in a community like this one, no? do you have any examples?
sometimes i notice a suspicious user, but they don't usually last long...
it would take a bit of dedication to infiltrate this place, with all the safeguards for trustworthiness. at that point, i'm not sure why you'd assume multiple subversive accounts to be one unpaid dude and not an organized and paid shilling effort by multiple people. do you think that's happening?
I think there's a very obvious shilling effort underway... they are paid... and get removed en masse. you think the unpaid ones are more effectively subversive than the paid ones?
i'm still not seeing it..
Some people shill for free. They want to discredit boards like this. It's their hobby. Call it trolling, not shilling, whatever. The problem is socks.
Forgive my ignorance but I like to learn , what is a sock ? Thank you !