STABs : Shills, Trolls, and Bots

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[–]JasonCarswell[S] 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

I'm hoping to popularize this term on use in SaidIt and beyond.

In addition to the LXXX/MoronLeft Commie-Nazi asstrolls, here on SaidIt we have the ABCs of STABs: /u/Airbus320, /u/bobbobbybob, /u/Chipit, and sometimes /u/socks, among others.

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1) It's too agressive

2) The image is definitely too agressive (and not directly related to "Shills, Trolls, and Bots")

3) It's rather difficult, or impossible, to determine on Saidit who is a shill or a bot

4) It's against freedom of speech, and it's a form of censorship, and it's against the pyramid of debate to harass users on Saidit by calling them Shills, Trolls, and/or Bots

5) Trolls still have a right to be trolls on Saidit, as long as they follow the rules (and /u/magnora7 & /u/TheAmeliaMay remove trolls who are naughty)

6) It's unlikely that anyone cares enough to be a shill on Saidit (still waiting for my check from Soros...)

7) It's unlikely that bots are operating on Saidit, or if they did, they'd be rather obvious. They do operate on Reddit, and are often obvious

8) WTF are Commie-Nazi asstrolls? (Don't feel obliged to answer any of this; I just think that calling people names on Saidit is already well established and does not need to "evolve" in this McCarthyist manner; and that this is against site rules)

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It's unlikely that bots are operating on Saidit

There's actually a lot of bots here, but they get banned pretty fast. Most of them spam ads, but there's one that keeps making new accounts to spam rants about Americans. No matter how many times we ban it: it never goes away.

WTF are Commie-Nazi asstrolls?

He's talking about LXXXVIII, loki88, 16mega, etc. They keep making sock-puppet accounts to get their dumb posts on the front page for five minutes, because they're twelve years old. The correct term is "Nazbol", but he was close enough.

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Cheers, first I've seen Nazbol. National Bolshevism is whack, an oxymoron, a sort of cognitive dissonance. They'd probably be the first ones against the wall after the revolution, when the actual nazis take over.