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lectorleoni ago

"Shills like to hide in the shadows."

The premise of this post is weak. It is only equivocally true; shills need to hide the fact that they are shills, but they also need to draw attention to themselves in order to derail the discussion. Compiling a blacklist on your own pretended authority without any explanation as to why the names on it belong there is what the bad guys do. It's either incompetence or malice. But when in doubt, the safer assumption is the worse.

The post itself employs several shill tactics. Let it be known, I'm only commenting because the author of the post is the moderator of the subverse; ordinarily, the appropriate thing to do with shills is to ignore them.

Let the reader peruse the Gentleperson's Guide to Forum Spies and judge for himself what this is: http://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm