So I decided to make a post in the subreddit for my nearest city. It was about development corruption by the University, and the fact that they have used money, power and influence to skip due process and corrupt both local and state government.
The first hour or so? Pleasant enough. Highly upvoted. Tolerant discussion. And then the fucking shills and trolls came. And they attacked. They attacked hard. Full on slanging match.
Guess what? Turns out they all, all work for the Uni, or at least claim to. We "outed" one of them as a fucking Zoom lecturer (surprise surprise that she referred to the fucking vice chancellor on a first name basis), after she had attempted to personally attack me, and even went for the full doxx.
It's crazy, there, now. Wild. Everything pointing out the obvious corruption, or widespread community disagreement (literally no one in the community, and off Reddit, wants this. Not a single person in any other forum, except for the manufactured consent on Facebook, has been positive. Not one) has been heavily downvoted, and every comment "supporting" the University, and saying how anyone in disagreeement is "dumb, ignorant hicks", have been highly upvoted.
It's frankly... Bizarre. Totally inorganic. Almost like they must have... People whose job it is is to to literally search out posts like mine, and run damage control. Like a very local version of hasbara, or Russian trolls...
Absolutely wild. I reckon they'll ban me, soon, for "being aggressive", or some bullshit.
Oh, and guess who one of the main "defenders" of the Uni, and the council, has been, all over social media? My old philosophy prof, at school, who was literally sacked for being an alcoholic ebebophile (you know, paedo for teen girls) and drug dealer, and has fled the country, but who feels the need to still comment on all local socials, because he is "a distinguished academic", and also happens to be "a philosopher", just like the completely corrupt VC of the Uni.
Former VC, who started all this shit, happens to have also been outed as a paedo, and sexual predator. Funny that. Almost like there's a pattern, innit?
Why are these places, and people, always like this? Lol...
There's definitely software that monitors public forums for mentions of your business. Peole wouod would show up on reddit saying their software had told them someone was talking about their product, though in context they would say it outright they were usually friendly.
For some people, the only source of joy in life is making other people miserable. They have nothing else.
You know how when people get nasty here it generally gets called out, unless it is "warranted"..? Or we actually know when someone is joking, or it's banter?
Well this has been... Not like that.
It's not friendly. It's not... "Jocular". It's not "banter". It's just endless vile attacks and the very worst TOS violations you can imagine.
But these are the same people who were literally calling for a lynch mob (an actual one, to burn down his house. Not a digital one) last year, against a... Let's say "white trash" person who "escaped" hotel quarantine, at the height of Covid panic...
So they're not just garden variety internet spergs. They're very possibly actually "banal evil".
I called them out on it, so they temp banned me for a while. I posted about it here, at some point, I remember.
That's how bad the place is, dude... :-(
It's nuts how they reproduced Nazi's. I mean they changed the target a bit but damn, these are literally the people who would form lynch mobs to hang innocent people back in the day.