I wrote this a while ago related to trolling back in December:
The key patterns: 1. Heavy caution at a new, possibly promising, lead. This is different than asking for documentation of a CLAIM. This guy was pushing back hard on somebody's finding of possible others connected to Tony Podesta in his FB friends based on questionable posts. 2. Smoking gun or exaggerated claims without evidence, which contradicts point #1. When you see both happening, you know it is a shill (versus someone just being over zealous) since it shows radically-inconsistent analysis. 3. Planting ideas that seem to be ludicrous, disconnected, or fringe, with no support, so that they can build the narrative of fake news by pointing to nonsense threads. When these unsubstantiated ideas fly up with heavy upvotes, you know it is CTR. They use this to move our resources into dead ends or areas that make us look silly...while replacing legit threads by moving to the top of the board. 4. Showing heavy venom and hate, bigotry, etc., again to partially paint us as a lunatic fringe of white supremacist racists (another of their memes). They loving pulling in hatred of jews or other groups. 5. Inciting violence or a call to arms to go down to the place and give them justice. They play off our natural outrage to try to create a record of us calling for violence, which will support their narrative when they have the false flag op and blame us for the violence, calling for outright censorship.
Those are the main themes I see, and this is how I have spotted them. The last item took off as an initiative for them yesterday, so I think a major false flag is imminent, especially with Hillary's comments yesterday. It is very coordinated.
Great comment, reasonedandinformed. Would you mind putting this together as a post for v/pizzagatemods? Then we can link to it as a ref in comments. Also, protip: You can make Voat show a numbered list as an indented sub-paragraph by putting a double return in front of each number, then highlighting the whole section and choosing the 7th formatting button. It will insert numbers in front of your numbers -- just delete your numbers. You can hit the preview button to see the formatting in advance.
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reasonedandinformed ago
I wrote this a while ago related to trolling back in December:
The key patterns: 1. Heavy caution at a new, possibly promising, lead. This is different than asking for documentation of a CLAIM. This guy was pushing back hard on somebody's finding of possible others connected to Tony Podesta in his FB friends based on questionable posts. 2. Smoking gun or exaggerated claims without evidence, which contradicts point #1. When you see both happening, you know it is a shill (versus someone just being over zealous) since it shows radically-inconsistent analysis. 3. Planting ideas that seem to be ludicrous, disconnected, or fringe, with no support, so that they can build the narrative of fake news by pointing to nonsense threads. When these unsubstantiated ideas fly up with heavy upvotes, you know it is CTR. They use this to move our resources into dead ends or areas that make us look silly...while replacing legit threads by moving to the top of the board. 4. Showing heavy venom and hate, bigotry, etc., again to partially paint us as a lunatic fringe of white supremacist racists (another of their memes). They loving pulling in hatred of jews or other groups. 5. Inciting violence or a call to arms to go down to the place and give them justice. They play off our natural outrage to try to create a record of us calling for violence, which will support their narrative when they have the false flag op and blame us for the violence, calling for outright censorship.
Those are the main themes I see, and this is how I have spotted them. The last item took off as an initiative for them yesterday, so I think a major false flag is imminent, especially with Hillary's comments yesterday. It is very coordinated.
Vindicator ago
Great comment, reasonedandinformed. Would you mind putting this together as a post for v/pizzagatemods? Then we can link to it as a ref in comments. Also, protip: You can make Voat show a numbered list as an indented sub-paragraph by putting a double return in front of each number, then highlighting the whole section and choosing the 7th formatting button. It will insert numbers in front of your numbers -- just delete your numbers. You can hit the preview button to see the formatting in advance.