Possible massive organized trolling?

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MattD1zzl3: Oct 26, 2007; Can't post for 4 years!

OneEightHundred posted:

You need to get out of the bubble if you think that it's all a paid troll army. Did you see the latest Republican primary? There are a LOT of people that buy into this stuff.

The reality is that right-wing Internet communities have become almost entirely defensive and driven by counter-narrative because they lack a narrative of their own other than "I'm not a bad person." If you want proof, you don't need to look much farther than how cobbled together and narrowly relevant the "free speech" defense to Milo's troll tour has been, but there are plenty of examples.

I think it would be great if people counter-trolled them, but then you have to adopt their tactics, and that means going after their credibility instead of their moral deficiency, and also understanding what they think to the point that you can throw things at them that they haven't formulated a defense to.

I think "right wing" or "republican" is the wrong way to put it. The SJW/TrumpTrolls thing doesnt really break down under the same economic political lines "Left/Right" brings to mind. Lots of hardcore bush-era republicans went for Abuela or didnt vote, and lots of Obama voters went trump.

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MattD1zzl3: Oct 26, 2007; Can't post for 4 years!

BrandorKP posted:

Right the feminism thread and the negrotown seemed to have been gone after.

A great way to attract trolls on somethingawful slash the internet in general is to create a space where they arent allowed.

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