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PGTAway818949 ago

Remember folks this is the same user posting "coffee gate" bs all over here a few weeks back. Double check this work carefully.

reasonedandinformed ago

Good observation. There seems to be an effort by some trolls to sensationalize and misdirect. Not claiming this definitively here, but we should always approach with some skepticism, especially when they scream "major find" with questionable links. Just look more deeply before upvoating.

waxdino ago

There is this strange phenomenon- top posts with lots of up votes. Click on it, top comments are calling it bullshit. Hmmm...

reasonedandinformed ago

Right. It gets upvoted by shills who know it is off-base (in this particular case). The OP may actually just be misguided and too easily convinced on his own work, or he may be CTR. I am not sure on that. The CTR people will upvoat things they know will waste our time or make us look to be foolish, racist, or tin-foil conspiracy people. Those who are actually looking for evidence will quickly see that the post lacks merit and be upvoated so that our skeptical comments end up at the top. It is a repeated pattern, but when you see this, it usually means one of two things:

  1. Dubious post, with justified concern, which I think is the case here. In this case, the doubters show a strong history in support of pizzagate and have made good contributions.

  2. Legitimate post, with CTR concern, where they are trying to dissuade us from something that merits a deeper dive. In such a case, the doubters show a strong history of shillery (caution trolling without support, posting misdirection posts, regurgitating old info to cause forum sliding of an important post, etc.).

justanotherpizza ago

this is a succinct observation, it would be interesting to put together a post with these kinds of observations to help subscribers make sense of what they are seeing when coming here.

reasonedandinformed ago

I almost think a crib notes on how to navigate the shills would help "Dealing with Shills." I think the main thing the site needs is a tagging system. Right now, it is driven by "sourced leads," meaning it does not provide a good place for people to posit a theory, a meme, or a call to action. Add to this "Dealing with Shills." If we could tag, we could provide all if this in a structured way. Right now, anything that is not a lead/sourced gets deleted and subjugated by the Mods to some other place no one visits on VOAT.