YoHomie ago

Voat retard troll here; it's a combo of all those things plus a total lack of compassion mixed with a giant box of "No Fucks Given". It's a delicate recipe, bug it can be managed.

Cacciaguida ago

It's easy to spot people who don't belong. Especially if they're in a sub like this one and they attack certain unprotected whites, eve as far as wishing they would die out. i.e. Swedes, Germans, French.

If you are a white nationalist and you are wishing for other whites to die out, you need to reevaluate your outlook.

cancer_man ago

Go browse 8chan's /pol/ for a while. It's arguably worse tbh.

HeLovedPandas ago

You take flak when you're over the target.

WORF_MOTORBOATS_TROI ago

New accounts and simple posts means they're a shill farming each account for posts and ccp and disguising it as rageposting.

virge ago

My general thesis is that Voat has both organic users and inorganic accounts.

I theorize the following are in the "inorganic" bucket:

  • Government employees doing their jobs.
  • Foreign country employees doing their jobs.
  • Private interests (Corporate Espionage) doing their jobs.
  • Data miners and data scientists collecting data or creating bots, for profit.

From the organic users, the glut of the users appear to be from Canada, the EU, and America. Quite a lot of younger folk, compared to other parts of the Internet.

thewebofslime ago

I believe there are less shills than most expect, for as much as the term is thrown around, but a few people fit the bill for the behavior that is standard for the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group in that they specialize in "reputation destruction." @crensch acts exactly like known JTRIG operations as outlined in this article:

https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

On Voat, we see (at least)

Operation Earnest Voice, mostly posting out of Virginia. Conservative projection but not "truth" oriented. One branch, in particular seems to focus on a lot of Wikipedia edits.

upvotes.club uses people from all over. Overtly Liberal, but not on Voat, so focuses on disruption and misinformation.

Miscellaneous PR firms who are keyword oriented. This means that if a certain keyword comes up, they are going to find it on Voat, Reddit, Poal, Saidit, etc and respond per a script. They don't invest much in the smaller platforms as it is too expensive for very little reward.

PSY Group, who are hyper focused on racism. They are designed to make free speech forums look bad to "normies." Voat is small enough that we are talking like one or two people from them.

GCHQ tends to focus on disinformation in their campaigns with a special flare for trying to present the opposite of the truth as fact.

Shill employees around the world number in the tens of thousands. It only takes a dozen or so to completely occupy Voat's attention.

Technology has reached a pinnacle of being able to measure feedback in order to know what is most effective. A lot of the tactics shills use predate the Internet, but the ability to measure results has allowed these marketing/propaganda machines to hone their focus.

The Angel Investor is liberal but not overtly on Voat and doesn't seem to be connected to these farms but, if they were connected, it would be with the group out of Virginia.

Admin uses a normal account constantly and mostly seems to want to grow Voat.

Angel Investor and Admin seem to find Poal troubling competition.

Funny story, while I'm chatty...

I had fake doxx planted on my server for my site (along with fake tables and extra db's) and someone managed to purloin the information. Someone tied to the angel investor had the fake information.

This is a site you can use to make seemingly realistic sock puppets.

https://www.fakepersongenerator.com/

When you combine it with real elements from this site...

https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/list

you can start to fool the aggregate information collection on your devices. You know it works when you start getting correlating friend recommendations on Facebook and LinkedIn.

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virge ago

Since I don't use Facebook, Linkedin, or any social media for that matter I can see how I would be extremely frustrating to observe.

thewebofslime ago

Unforunately, most of your devices are compromised by a blueborne exploit that is always sharing information with devices around you. So, if you live with people or work with people who use these services, your data is still getting vacuumed up.

virge ago

Good there, too. I'm literally on an island.

BlueDrache ago

Heh ... nice to know this greybeard is still "young".

HeLovedPandas ago

Redpill them all with facts and well-formed arguments!

virge ago

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

  • Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

HeLovedPandas ago

LOL! Too true. :)

I feel I must add, "It is impossible to wake a person who is pretending to be asleep."

Joe_McCarthy ago

If they're disruption agents fouling up the feed with nonsense and wasting legit' users' time in doing so - they do their jobs well.

virge ago

they do their jobs well.

First time we've ever agreed. I think the team Israel paid accounts run the place.

goatboy ago

They are Goats. If you don’t understand what a goat is, then that is your problem and you need to lurk more.

Now fuck off back to reddit, faggot.

dan_k ago

, said the voat user.

Joe_McCarthy ago

I don't believe all of these people are this stupid on purpose. I'll say that much.

heygeorge ago

Certainly not all. But I think it’s important not to underestimate the number of dumb and mentally ill members.

GapingAnus ago

Some of us are just lucky that way.