In all the time that I have been here at Voat I have seen three trends of this preaching to the choir shilling:
- User promotes a narrative of white supremacy, ethno state, race war, denunciation and persecution of the (((jews in the letter))) to appeal for a more aggressive approach and most likely to break the laws. This basically to exacerbate the emotions of rage, hate and fear to a point of armed conflict.
- User promotes a more articulate rhetoric that is used to appeal other users and to show himself as “one of us” in order to then put himself/herself in a position of authority. If the user is questioned or called out he may either turn aggressive in his replies or he in a more calm way can threaten other users of doxing for example.
- User posts simple statements but that are appealing to the Voat user base to recurrently, using often flattery to farm his/her way to a position where he/she can start posting misinformation or troll posts that will help discredit the legitimacy of our positions and views.
Take for example /u/NiggerVirus. He is an alt of /u/TheAmerican, /u/GhostSkin and /u/99887766 (among others he has).
Though I know he will use this to improve his tactics it is important for those of you that haven’t notice his modus operandi to pay more attention to it:
- Usually his names use two words.
- First letter of each Word is capital.
- The names may appeal to a certain aspect of the community: NiggerVirus already implies a dislike for niggers, well received among Voat’s community. TheAmerican already implies a support for nationalist views, support for Donald Trump, etc.
- Other times he uses random patterns but following an order GhostSkin or 99887766.
- His posts are initial preaching to the choir type with simple statements accompanied of flattery to Voat’s community.
- The frequency of the posts he does is quite strong. Meaning he only focus on achieving this first stage of farming to then troll Voat and hence hurt our credibility because he allowed this troll to succeed.
- He farms his way to a position where he can later troll Voat constantly on v/all
Another example of this nonsense is that he made a post with TheAmerican alt with stating that he wasn’t GhostSkin but then on a comment on a different post (or the same I can’t remember) he confirmed he was. Plus he had already confirmed that to me on a different post as well.
If you remember TheAmerican was one that started posting about muscles and such and just now NiggerVirus started to post the same: https://voat.co/v/pics/3132326
It depends on you whether you keep allowing these shills to attack our credibility or not.
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drstrangegov ago
Grossest thread ever.
sguevar ago
You are free to think like that.
drstrangegov ago
Thank you! Am I reading this right? You think ghostskin is one of the organized enemies? I corresponded with him at length and I didn't get that impression. The impression I got was that he was a very bored individual entertaining himself. I didn't see any consistent subtext or "talking points". Just random shitposting, sometimes unfunny, sometimes brilliant. I didn't see him operating with others. Bear in mind I'm not a professional.
sguevar ago
In part.
But thanks for bringing this up. Nonetheless I stand by my post.
I have in the past argued that alt accounts leads to dishonesty and every time his alts get caught he starts to lie and deny they are his alts. Which to me shows to some extent ill intentions.
There wouldn't be necessity for him to deny they are his alts if he didn't have ill intentions. But I just used him as an example. I care not about brigading him. I care about putting some light to these trends I have been witnessing for the past few months.
You may be right that he isn't part of this group of people but I maintain my caution with him.
drstrangegov ago
I have no evidence what he is or isn't, but I like him even though he is utterly full of shit. Or deeply deranged, or maybe even a hero. No idea which it is.
sguevar ago
I can respect your position towards him and as Kat told me once, she likes some of his posts and so on and so forth.
But he was a simple example of something that I have seen happen. So part or no part of this group goes besides the point. He even acknowledged to you that all his alts were meant to be deceptive.
Maybe for his own amusement maybe for something more concerning. I will simply maintain my caution here.
drstrangegov ago
Well, what's the harm in interacting with him? I'm a nobody, and persecuting me would be an immense waste of resources.
sguevar ago
No one is stopping you