After completing the research and putting together my post "IMPORTANT FOR ANONS TO KNOW: Multiple Nuclear explosions in Yemen" I decided to light up a cigar and ponder the question: if I wanted to be an effective Shill on a heavily moderated site like GAW, how would I do it?
To be effective and fly under the radar:
I wouldn't be openly hostile.
I wouldn't let myself stand out negatively.
I wouldn't be broadly 'shill-ish' or disagree often.
I wouldn't take positions I knew were unpopular.
I wouldn't attempt to challenge broad consensus.
I wouldn't advocate on behalf of enemies everyone on GAW is familiar with.
I would make several accounts.
I would take time to build credibility.
I would make posts pleasing to the majority.
I would make comments I knew would be popular.
I would be sure to portray myself as patriotic/MAGA.
I would intelligently 'dunk on' the occasional posts/comments that are clearly easy to ridicule.
I would hover around the 'new posts' page to be the first, and therefore likely top comment (Like count).
I would set up multiple accounts in this manner.
I would wait, patiently, for the particular topics relevant to my Shill assignment given to me by my handlers.
I would bet on human psychology, herd mentality.
I would use my multiple accounts to swarm with down votes, ridicule, and 'debunking', whatever sensitive topic(s) or ideas I was sent to GAW to thwart and 'contain'.
By getting to the post early, and with only a handful of accounts, I could easily manufacture the artificial appearance of a 'community consensus' against whatever topic or idea I was assigned to attack.
The only countermeasure to this type of attack is critical, independent thinking on an individual by individual basis. Don't let the perception of the 'majority opinion' distract you away from considering new or 'controversial' ideas. Learn to separate fact from opinion.
Just some food for thought...
WWG1WGA!
Interesting… Any chance you could copy/paste some of the things he said?
Let me check He told me to delete everything and I believe I did delete most but I’ll go back and see , we wrote for quite a while , he actually was a really nice guy , personally, compassionate and kind . We wrote about our lives etc , he grew up with horrific abuse , he lives in Alabama he said , we had a lot in common. but in the end I knew the chances were pretty good that he was a fed. Like he said he disappeared and never heard from him again . Before he disappeared he said he was going to try to figure out how we could keep communicating like maybe through some kind of email or something or. But he never did . What was weird is after he disappeared! he wrote me a week later and actually said , you’re still on here and he wrote quite a few sentences saying that he was serious he knows I’m a good person blah blah blah blah and he warned me again to get off , but like I said The warning was not like he was just some paranoid patriot, I think he was warning me because well you know. He said this will be the last time you hear from me and it was ! That was over a year ago or more !
I found just a couple about a 100 were deleted. Nothing real big , one was about how foolish I was to fly into Figi and then boarded a hellicopter to land on a yacht , I didn’t have to go through customs and he explained how dangerous that was . The yacht was a previous austrailian navy ship renovated it belongs to a billionaire here in San Diego 10 of us went . I knew the people so it wasn’t dangerous .