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[–]FlippyKing 8 insightful - 6 fun8 insightful - 5 fun9 insightful - 6 fun -  (7 children)

I don't even think "shalomeveryone" is a real person. I think he and some overly-anti-Jewish poster are, or a few, are accounts run by the same person or entity. Shalomeveryone is a troll. If you gain anything from reading what that account posts, "more power to ya" as they say. But I found him worthless and annoying and blocked him long ago. I am missing out on nothing as a result.

[–]Zapped 7 insightful - 5 fun7 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 5 fun -  (6 children)

I think it is one person, because he's pretty consistent with his delivery. I have seen him go off message with sarcasm a few times. Maybe he had too much to drink while posting.

[–]FlippyKing 7 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 4 fun -  (5 children)

I saw consistency too, and that made me think the posts were working off a script

[–]Zapped 8 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 4 fun -  (4 children)

I've only seen one user here that seems to work off a script. More of a flow chart, really. They are like a salesperson, not giving an inch.

[–]magnora7 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

That's often a bot, lots of bots simply follow pre-scripted discussion trees. They're so convincing these days...

[–]FlippyKing 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I had my first dealing with that kind of account, and after a few days I caught onto the cycle of taking points they had. We were arguing about something I have a small amount of expertise in and they were attacking me with BS, never backing up their claims with any data or anything. I concluded that the account was possibly run by a PR firm defending a brand's product. I've been suspicious and watchful for such behavior ever since, because I don't like others wasting my time. I'm already too good at it myself. I need no help.

[–]Zapped 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

What became of the shill account?

[–]FlippyKing 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I should have been more clear, sorry. It was on twitter, not here. It was long ago, and I left twitter a couple of years after that. But I carry the suspicion around with me still.