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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Indeed - and these shills must really suck at what they do if they think they will have any impact on 20 people at Saidit. Imagine shills bragging about their work at the end of the day and these morons saying that they insulted a few people on Saidit, when the others ask: WTF is Saidit?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I can't imagine shills being on only one site at a time. They'd have their spread.

I've watched really small comment-boards get brigaded. Smaller than Saidit. It's really not that hard to do, especially with bots. It's less about convincing the users to change their views, and more about data-collection and hamstringing content creators. Content gets spread around on these sorts of places. They don't like the folks who spread specific content, which I do not see on this website very often. This place is more of a news aggregator than anything else, mostly clickbaity news. However, certain users and even site-creators have been dealt with through the use of shills. Most people do not have the time and patience to deal with a malicious person.

Saidit is not an important place. That does not mean that there aren't paid agents popping up on these boards, leaving behind bot-accounts and data-collectors and the like. I mean, really.

Shills do stink. You can almost smell them.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, that does seem to be the pattern.