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[–]magnora7[S] 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

Shut down competition to reddit, shut down speech of things some people don't want to be publicly said

We always have a huge shill influx when we get a bunch of new users. They want this site not to grow, seems to be their primary aim.

Why wouldn't a billion-dollar corporation like reddit pay some kids $12/hr to destroy all their competition? They'd almost be dumb not to. Furthermore there's probably plenty of people who would do it for free for various reasons (because they don't like what's being said on saidit)

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OK - I think this may reference both shills and influencers. It's difficult to believe what I don't see, though I appreciate that you've seen it. The recent IronLeft attacks appear to be from one or more ex-Saiditors who are rather emotional about their banned accounts, but I also appreciate your earlier points about the long history of attacks at Saidit, which I had forgotten about when posing the question about shills. The main reason for the question is that I am often called a shill at Saidit (mainly by 2 people, not a big deal), and I suppose I am getting tired of it. It also seems absolutely absurd to me that my occasional disagreement with disinformation (distributed by shills and special interest groups) results in claims that I am a shill.

[–]magnora7[S] 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Shills often pre-emptively accuse others of being shills. It's a common defense tactic. Then when you accuse them, it looks like you're copying what they said, and then you just have a thread with everyone calling everyone shills and no one knows what's going on. It's another screwball tactic that's super common once you notice it