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saltminetimes ago

In a way, as long as the shills don't overwhelm and downvote important posts, it doesn't matter that there are shills. Here's why: the fact is you can't really trust anyone. Period. You can only trust your own critical thinking and reasoning. As long as you don't take everything other people say as gospel, and you pick out the parts that don't add up, it should be fine. Some people say "trust but verify." but I prefer "doubt and verify." Obviously shills giving misinformation slow things down, but if people remain critical, over the long haul they can't stop people from figuring out what's bs and what's accurate.

Edit: I just thought of something: Do bots ever correct typos? Presumably bots would gather words from actual posts and so might occasionally use misspellings etc., but I doubt they would be programmed to later edit and correct their mistakes. So, and I'm not sure about this, but I think if someone has never edited one of their own posts after the 2-3 minute shadow edit time frame, then they are most likely a bot. just a thought.

Millennial_Falcon ago

It's a problem because not everyone is the greatest at critical thinking. A certain amount of people will be fooled by the disinformation and take it and run with it. Then the media will use it to as "proof" of the "fake news" narrative.

reasonedandinformed ago

The @DuffBeer4Me is either insane or CTR. Why would he target me as a look at my history shows that I am in support of this movement and am actually good at catching shills red-handed? Oh, and this was written by a BOT. What a joke.

saltminetimes ago

The @DuffBeer4Me is either insane or CTR.

Hey now, that's not fair. @DuffBeer4Me discovered the only two weaknesses of the bots and shills: Pop culture references and a refusal to work on Sundays. Now that we know the conspiracy keeps the Lords Day Holy, we can wage assaults on weekends and Christian Holidays.