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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

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