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On Incoming Neutrals, Shills, Trolls etc...

You may or may not be noticing many threads/comments incoming, seemingly completely unrelated to very much or people asking for new information, as recent news is hitting highly in /all and twitter crap.

This is obviously to be expected.

While most some of the posts will definitely be posted in the most honest of good faith, some may be truly genuine.

Based Tyrone has an instructional video on how to deal

Obviously it's up to you how you deal, Leader.

And while yes this may be a post that some will cry "tone policing" in some way, I say "fuck you"

Posted Jan 22, 2016, 8:22 PM UTC · edited

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DonQuixoteLaMancha•

I agree, always err on the side of caution. Laws seem all the rage so I'm calling this Quixote's law:

"without a clear indicator of the author's authenticity, idiots or those new to a subject will be mistaken by some people as shills trying to take the piss."

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AntonioOfVeniceRuns /r/polygon \ Karma King of late April 2015•

I agree, always err on the side of caution

A simple look at someone's posting history will tell you if he is worth taking seriously.

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DonQuixoteLaMancha•

Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

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brotherjustincrowe•

Isn't that just where Poe meets Hanlon?

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DonQuixoteLaMancha•

pretty much.

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ShitAltSays•

Isn't Tyrone, like, a professional shill?

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PsemtexOP21k Knight - Order of the GET•

Yup.

But at least he's an honest one.

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koichi91•

Generally speaking a shill hides the fact that they are working for someone in some way.

Tyrone is what you would call a professional spokesman, albeit one who works for random people on the internet.

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HELPFUL_FACT•

Shills hide it. Spokespeople don't.

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HandofBaneShitposter Extraordinaire•

Agreed for the most part. The actual shills/trolls and so on will make themselves obvious within a couple posts/comments. In those cases, feel free to slap the report button and we will look into whether something needs to be done or not.

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