The shills and bots are winning.

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[–]Node[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

One of the theories on what's happening there is bots doing the grunt work, with teams of humans backing them up. Similar to robo calls, where the human only steps in once a live one is on the hook.

Are some of the shills, such as Chipit, actually bots?

How can he have time to spend all day everyday posting links on saidit? The human/bot hybrid theory makes a lot of sense, both to explain what's happening, and from an efficiency and effectiveness perspective.

[–]LarrySwinger2 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I just assumed they were minimum wage workers.

[–]Node[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I realized while looking at your 5 month old link I haven't seen /u/Tom_Bombadil[ lately. It's been about 2 weeks, but hopefully he's just on vacation or something. Come back, Tom!

Your theory could be valid. I don't know much about the internet propaganda industry. Used to have a call center in SF back in the old days. We paid the workers a minimum wage, with some compensation for each successful sale. It was a pretty marginal lot though.

We made 50 bucks per sale, with a 30%+ success rate from the lists we were getting. I'm not immediately seeing a source of profit from paying people to back up comment bots on the internet (reddit, faceberg, etc) unless it's more about political propaganda. Paying someone to post on saidit would seem to be particularly unprofitable.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I was thinking that myself. I had assumed /u/Tom_Bombadil was still standoffish at me for the drama I caused exposing M7. Tom was thinking that I was could be a long-con disruption agent of some kind. Anything's possible I suppose. Perhaps M7 is a limited hangout, a LEO who's got a few dozen truth-seekers addict-trapped in his forum that he's determined not to improve. Anything's possible. Too much effort for so little payoff doesn't make sense in either scenario. It'd be cheaper and easier to hire a hitman to take out the leaders and non-anons like me.

It could also be that Tom is gardening more or something in the good weather. Maybe he's doing better with his resources than I am.

would seem to be particularly unprofitable.

Destroying the economy would seem to be particularly unprofitable. Yet they're doing it on purpose.

We all do better when we all do better. But the ruling class never wants that. They want it all to themselves. So, we all do worse when we all do worse - except for them. They print money and bail themselves and their friends out.

It's going to get worse too.