The internet is dead and rotted yet there is so many insane 'upvotes' on certain posts over and over.

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[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Are these paid or something?

Yes; shills are very common on the Internet — especially when it comes to product reviews. Most the reviews on Amazon are written by shills from India. Sometimes the company selling the product will purchase their own stuff and send it to a random address so their shills can get the "Verified Purchase" label.

On Social Media, shills are used to manipulate the narrative to be pro-establishment. They make a bunch of comments on a bunch of alt accounts saying the same things (I've seen a few screenshots posted on here of that) and then attack anyone who disagrees with them. There's also a lot of shills who post spam and meaningless garbage to bury anti-establishment conversations.

When I was a SaidIt admin, there was this one shill (you probably won't know him, but his username was u/loki88) who was using a bunch of alt accounts to spam advertisements (they all had the same IP address). There was another shill (u/ILoveCher, he's still active under different usernames) who likes to spam pornography and incomprehensible ramblings.

According to a post I saw a while back (I think u/Jesus posted it, but I might be wrong): shills are paid more if you interact with their comment in any way, which includes likes, replies, etc. so you should just ignore them and report their posts, if they break any rules.

Most of the Internet is fake. Trust no one.

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

Yes, that was me. You'll know a shill by their fruits. Don't argue, even in good faith, simply block them. The more you argue the more they get paid. That isn't to say that people cannot disagree with your views, because many will take this advice and use it to label anyone who disagrees with their views shills but shills and their fallacies are easy to spot. Again, you'll know them by their fruits.

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

Exactly!