Some users and I have noticed a few posts here--and across other win pages--have been created by brand new accounts, which will likely never post again. I've seen them called spam, bots, and shills, but the posts here are usually on-topic for this board, anyway. Ones that aren't can be properly reported and presumably removed in good time.
So, is this really a problem? If so, what should be done? This board is essentially founded upon anti-censorship sentiment. Auto-modding is a no-go (I think). If it isn't a problem, I'll ask this in some fairness to those seeing a problem: how much is too much? How will you be able to tell and still be able to fix it? Tagging u/DomitiusOfMassilia. I see you've been removing some days-old posts like these recently. Is there an unwritten rule that users should be participants of their respective communities before making posts?
No banning, no censorship, please, no matter how fucked up the postings or whatever their intent.
I don't want to see anyone banned but something has to be done when there's vote manipulation going on it's obviously either to manufacture consensus, false flag, or pre-exposure to something weak when later it becomes strong you are pre-steered to a conclusion.
Yeah I too believe the glowies should be able to post so that we can get banned from the internet
The potential for infiltration by bad faith actors is always a concern in online groups. The most effective ones will pretend to be participating in good faith. The suspicion caused by these two things is a major goal in cointelpro.
I think the solution is just not getting lazy in the future. Vigilance, if you will.
I'd say it depends on the post. You shouldn't be starting new threads to shitpost memes if you're not an active member of the community, but if you've got new information people are going to want to see (like the recent news that Alex Jones was ordered to pay a billion dollars for being a conspiracy theorist) then go ahead and share.
What's happening is that the exact same post is being made to multiple subs, but with different user names for each.
I'm guessing they're setting up sock puppet accounts and farming karma for later. Since all the accounts are different, no one will be able to tell once the handshake wears off.
I don't want to censor them or anything, but it's suspicous as hell and it would be good if people were aware.
See, this is what I'm not getting. Why all these accounts for individual posts? It seems unnecessary to me. If you're farming, you would theoretically make more posts on fewer accounts, or at least enough posts to 'remove the handshake.'
It's so they can claim to be long time members and agree with each other at some point.
The shill army's presence here amuses me to no end.
Think of just how few of us there are on this board. Yet we are deemed important enough for their efforts.
Hilarious.
It's election season. Shills, tourists, and feds are abound.
New posters are fine.
I have a concern where it's obvious bot-farmed or you have multiple new accounts posting weakly tangential stuff even for this place, which has always seemed kind of tangential. Like dunking on AOC is fine but it doesn't seem much related to the culture war (imo).
Real people don't just drop an article and run off without discussing anything. You posted it, you clearly have something to say.
Real people don't post the same shit as some other new account within minutes of each other.
Real people don't submit posts that get immediate jumps in votes (and feed positioning).
You guys probably don't have access to IPs or geo-location, but will Communities/Scored support you guys if you wanted to go on a sock-hunt?
Yes it does seem to be an issue. I enacted this policy, actually at the recommendation of some of the users many months ago. I've yet to see any stringent objections to it, because when I actually follow through with enforcing it in a timely manner, there seem to have been no significant downsides.
Typically one-time posters that normally have specific agendas that they are attempting to "slide" the forum towards. In many cases, it's people who are already banned for rule violations, but in other cases, it's clearly advocates and activists who are trying to push specific agendas. This has occurred for anti-Ukraine, pro-Ukraine, pro-Trump, anti-Trump, and many other posts that have specific agendas towards some kind of hot topic.
It does get pretty bad when not brought under control, it's one of the reasons we have a 5 post daily maximum. Back on Reddit, we had a user that was effectively a shared Tulsi election advocacy account. That user and Andredal were posting upwards of 30 posts every single day, each. It was really out of control from only two people.
Genuine community engagement is the best defense against this action because it's a horrific waste of time for a shill. Spending 30 days commenting both enables the users to make judgements on the individual engaging with them, and it also allows them to make mistakes, all while not effectively sliding the forum.
How I handle it, is that if it's a post that instantly breaks the rules, and user is new and has no history, I treat it as a "Border Control Violation", and they get banned. This is normally the easiest way to deal with infiltrators, subversives, and activists coming into the board and weaponizing it. This also is the favorite tactic of people whom are already banned. This also goes for people who are pure shills and are just advertising.
If the user seems to be commenting on something that is relevant to the forum's interests, I'll just give them a warning and expect them to particpate going forwards.
This place is loaded with stormcucks. They all need to go.
Go worship your one balled god and your Spanish feminist false idol.
Yeah, what's up with that btw? This is like the 3rd one I spotted, do you keep getting banned or do you just like to switch it up?
Based lmao. I got perma'd recently for asking some faggot if he was a retard. It's been getting worse.
Anyway, looking forward to seeing all the other races.
The first one I get. But who's the "Spanish feminist false idol"?
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/15K6JOTsAv/x/c/4OezAyHoXyi
Thank you, somehow that had slipped my mind.
At this point I can only consider that you're in character 100% of the time.
Nobody can be that retarded and oblivious to their own stupidity.
And the saddest part is that some people still engage you in good faith. That's why I think you really hurt this board, you derail discussions because people are used to deal with normal human beings and they talk back to you like one.
Unfortunately there will never be any human discussion, because you're just a meat spam bot.
"Meat spam bot" is a world-class zinger.
That said, I want to caution you that retardation has no floor.
TL;DR : "Hitler is my lord and savior and anyone who criticises His One-Balledness is a bot"
I may be Hitler but at least I'm not a woman. -Hitler
Most of his voters were though.
I have noticed that all the people who use the suffix cuck in stormCUCK, happen to be men who exist in sexual isolation while chad has sex with the last woman they cared about.
When cucks organized into mgtow squads and began to find themselves at odds with complete men.
So, Chad is fucking my mom? Because I've never cared about a woman outside of my family after growing up and likely never will.
You're just projecting. Chad is fucking your blonde tradwife as we speak, but it's okay because that isn't her real nature, she was brainwashed by Jews.
and that ridiculous belief, is why you're a cuck.
So propaganda does not exist? Brainwashing is a myth?
Bearing that every single (every single) man in your lineage back to the beginning of time had it in them to find and attract a woman- every generation until you were born- is my viewpoint really more ridiculous than yours? Either you come from a long line of retards, or there at least WERE acceptable women.
Now, what could cause a transition from a society of acceptable mates to one with a shortage? Think, maybe, you could expose people to information that affects their behavior?
Your stance is devoid of logic but even that would be fine if you could put your money where your mouth is and present yourself as a genuine mind. Always calling people shills and knocking them for sycophancy, but idk if I have even once seen you step back from the narrative line you tow no matter how much face it could save.
Ironically, you react in a way you think saves face for your beloved narrative structure (by turning to superficial and childlike insults), but you are really just maintaining a deficit of reputability. A deficit you could recover from by entertaining "hostile" information just enough to have a genuine argument.
Of course propaganda exists. Your side is excellent at it.
The thing that kept them pretending to be nice, the necessity of a man's wealth, was no longer so strong.
Projecting a bit here, aren't you. There was a great example earlier today, where I brought up how not even JPMorgan could cancel OnlyFans, and your side said "but Radvinsky" like the opposition isn't also Jewish. The most hilarious part was the idea that the CEO of JPMorgan is retarded and forgot they were Jews when he filed to debank them.
Where is OF based again? The home of the More Feminine Way.
A genuine argument with people who literally use bots, yeah, that's worth my time. Go bot up another post about Kanye West, I heard Chase debanked him.
If "my side" were good at propaganda maybe we would own even one mainstream news organization, Imp. Maybe one politician. Power reflected in the material world to compliment our considerable populism. All we are good at there are the memes. And we're not even good at making memes, it's just that memes are good at communicating ideas and we use them to highlight ideas that make sense.
Your answer regarding a shift in female attitudes is empty. This discussion is stalled by it, but for the joy that drives me to write the rest of this comment.
You accuse me of projecting by rightly mocking how every single person to the right of you is a shill. This makes no sense on the face, but then, you're referring to "the right", to "my side" and not me. But you might as well be complaining "the niggers", because the line separating you from your average bigot is NOTHING, a mundane shift of nouns that serve the role of pretty clothes to play dress-up with an entrenched way of thought.
Tons of people I happen to never bitch at are very, very guilty of this. It is often their defining trait. But what I like about them, and what keeps them unbitched by me, is their self awareness and pride: the fact that it is obvious on the face that they are bigots on purpose because they think it is right & good to be so. That is not you, you are being a hypocrite and a doofus when you behave this way. Which is constantly.
Your neurotic identity-based hatred of women lends itself to the reality that people with neurotic identity-based hatred are not shills. Behind any great bigotry is great love, if "great" can mean "maintained with reason". Lots of people hate outside of reason. For instance idk what it is in you that makes you so in LOVE with your boogeyman of choice, defending her with your life, 24/7 white knighting her pride as #1. You are hostile to anyone who holds anyone else's deeds above hers. You actually worship feminists.
I feel this way about ConPro users who cannot stop talking about blacks 24/7, too. They worship black people in a way that would make their heads pop to accept. Black people, just like radfems, are simply not at the root of the power structure we all want to be enemies of together.