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Owlofcreamcheese posted:There has been like 5 actual trolls in the history of the universe and then a lot of people on the internet that actually think the things they say but say "I'm just a troll" to explain to themselves why they are attacking the people they actually legitimately are attacking. Real trolls are a bit more subtle than just crashing into a liberal forum spewing bigotry. They do stuff like saying the exact right thing to get a Star Trek fan forum fighting each other over something idiotic like tribble biology, while they walk away looking innocent. The guys we call "trolls" here who come in and say stuff that seems crazy but in fact is just spouting the Donald J Trump party line are the "alt right" and their dickish air of detachment doesn't mean they are joking. They are deadly, deadly serious.
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Oxxidation posted:SA isn't important enough for well-organized trolling attempts. The alt-right have a lot of time on their hands. SA is actually an influential site. It's not quite 4chan but a lot of memes originate here. Things can get organized here. And it's anarchic enough that you don't get instabanned for expressing alt-right views.
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OneEightHundred posted:You need to get out of the bubble if you think that it's all a paid troll army. It's an unpaid army of complete dickheads who really believe the crap they spout.
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BrandorKP posted:Fine, I'll be specific it really seemed like Tiny Brontosaurus was being gone after in an organized way. A good way to get some "funny" red text next to your name is to post in the feminism thread and TB is just the easiest target there. I posted endless crap in other threads to no particular notice but engaging in the feminism thread got me this lovely red text. I'm not the only one. All of them careful to mention it was got in the feminism thread.
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El Mero Mero posted:What are the large right-wing communities these days? r/TheDonald and Stormfront? some sections of 4-chan? Facebook.
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twodot posted:What does "notice" mean? Would people notice that SA was full of terrible people they didn't like? Very possibly. Would people notice the terrible people they don't like are a deliberate effort by a state level actor? Only if that actor is an idiot. Even if people noticed that these were the efforts of a state level actor, could they do anything other than flee to increasingly irrelevant spin offs? Of course not. Paid trolls tend to be pretty monomaniacal because they ain't getting paid to whinge about Doctor Who for 690 posts to build credibility. It's just wham-bam, Russia ain't so bad.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:The ten dollar fee doesn't just keep out the chaff, it also keeps the site much easier to moderate by keeping it small. And it gives users a stake which allows them to be essentially fined $10 if they break rules. You can't just troll and re-reg like in other sites because it costs you $10.
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