We should undertake a demoralization/repetetive-negative-entrainment psychological campaign against them. Every time you see an obvious shill comment, reply along the lines of:
Every time you post one of these comments you are protecting people who torture, rape, and murder children. You are a person who gets paid to protect child rapists.
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Every time you see someone you love, you will think to yourself "I get paid to protect child rapists".
etc., in your own phrasing, with your own twist, or exactly the same, doesn't really matter. Even if there are four replies like that already on the comment, make another one. If there's one thing we've all learned from experience with shills, it's that they do check their inbox, diligently. The idea is to repetitively confront them with what they're doing over and over and over again and build a negative psychological response into their psyche. Never engage with their rhetoric. If they reply to you, no matter what they say, just write another one of those messages telling them very directly what they're doing.
The messages shouldn't be angry either. For two reasons, firstly, shills are trolls, secondly, (I'm not no god damn psychologist but bear with me) anger makes the message less effective at working it's way into the shill's psyche. When some angry person yells at you "fuck you, you're a fucking retarded asshole" that's just an angry person being angry and you can more or less laugh it off. Anger prompts an immediate denial/defense/dismissal response. When large number of people are repeating to you in clear, direct, unemotional language, that you are an accomplice to child torture, rape, and murder, presenting you with nonthreatening, straightforward sentences that just happen to be designed to build habits into your cognition (e.g. the second example), the knee-jerk anger defense reflex isn't triggered and the ideas are processed more deeply.
At some point the shill will either quit out of inability to deal with the cognitive dissonance, or, by some unlikely miracle, actually grow a conscience and realize what they're doing. It's my guess that the majority of shills are bad people but they're not psychopathic, mass murderer, pedophiles, they just have weak morals and want the pay, or they've bought some kind of political brainwashing. Most of them can be broken with repetition.
Pasting one of these replies is hardly any more effort than downvoating, and aside from the potential for breaking shills, it also leaves a public visual indication of the unified recognition that the user is a shill.
The message should leave an out in case they're just a stubborn non-shill. "If I'm wrong .. Is your mental masturbation worth children being harmed? Should this not be looked into?" etc...
I still think it matters. If you don't give the out, then people who are still on the fence or in disbelief will get angry at being called shills when in fact they're not paid. They're just having a hard time believing. It matters because every time you send that message to a non-shill disbeliever, you're building up a further wall by accusing them of something they're not. Hence why I suggested leaving an out that nevertheless reminds/guilts them that it's about kids and not some internet fight.
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superesper ago
We should undertake a demoralization/repetetive-negative-entrainment psychological campaign against them. Every time you see an obvious shill comment, reply along the lines of:
...
etc., in your own phrasing, with your own twist, or exactly the same, doesn't really matter. Even if there are four replies like that already on the comment, make another one. If there's one thing we've all learned from experience with shills, it's that they do check their inbox, diligently. The idea is to repetitively confront them with what they're doing over and over and over again and build a negative psychological response into their psyche. Never engage with their rhetoric. If they reply to you, no matter what they say, just write another one of those messages telling them very directly what they're doing.
The messages shouldn't be angry either. For two reasons, firstly, shills are trolls, secondly, (I'm not no god damn psychologist but bear with me) anger makes the message less effective at working it's way into the shill's psyche. When some angry person yells at you "fuck you, you're a fucking retarded asshole" that's just an angry person being angry and you can more or less laugh it off. Anger prompts an immediate denial/defense/dismissal response. When large number of people are repeating to you in clear, direct, unemotional language, that you are an accomplice to child torture, rape, and murder, presenting you with nonthreatening, straightforward sentences that just happen to be designed to build habits into your cognition (e.g. the second example), the knee-jerk anger defense reflex isn't triggered and the ideas are processed more deeply.
At some point the shill will either quit out of inability to deal with the cognitive dissonance, or, by some unlikely miracle, actually grow a conscience and realize what they're doing. It's my guess that the majority of shills are bad people but they're not psychopathic, mass murderer, pedophiles, they just have weak morals and want the pay, or they've bought some kind of political brainwashing. Most of them can be broken with repetition.
Pasting one of these replies is hardly any more effort than downvoating, and aside from the potential for breaking shills, it also leaves a public visual indication of the unified recognition that the user is a shill.
demoTheGorgon ago
The message should leave an out in case they're just a stubborn non-shill. "If I'm wrong .. Is your mental masturbation worth children being harmed? Should this not be looked into?" etc...
superesper ago
If it's not a shill it doesn't matter because then your message isn't true and they can disregard it.
demoTheGorgon ago
I still think it matters. If you don't give the out, then people who are still on the fence or in disbelief will get angry at being called shills when in fact they're not paid. They're just having a hard time believing. It matters because every time you send that message to a non-shill disbeliever, you're building up a further wall by accusing them of something they're not. Hence why I suggested leaving an out that nevertheless reminds/guilts them that it's about kids and not some internet fight.
Crensch ago
This response should be higher.