What is a “Walk”?
A decentralized strategy for networking with local anons anonymously IRL.
Why Walk?
Walking allows normally isolated anons to meet with little risk, make friends, and to organize locally.
How does it work?
Step 1: On the specified date, wear a plain white shirt and any style of hat. Wearing these clothes on this specific day serves to identify you at a glance to other participating anons while also providing absolute plausible deniability if needed.
Step 2: Go to the local place that best corresponds to the OP’s suggestion. Locations might include:
Most popular park
The sidewalk outside Town Hall
Downtown’s fanciest tavern
This improves the odds of anons meeting without naming any specific location, making a honeypot or ambush virtually impossible.
Step 3: If you see another person wearing a white shirt and hat, say hello and drop some hints about /pol/ culture. If they don’t understand, assume they’re not an anon. If they do, congratulations! You probably just met a friendly anon.
That’s it! Feel free to exchange contact information, meet up for coffee later, go find more anons, whatever. It’s up to you how to interact with your newfound compatriots.
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Walk General for April 2019
April has the weather improving a bit, so lets take a stroll down to a park closest to your local City Hall to enjoy it a bit.
Location: The nicest outdoor park or location nearest your City Hall.
Saturdays: April 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th
Dub Days: Thurday April 11th, Monday April 22nd
Times: 1:11pm – 4:44pm
Hints:
Some City Halls have plazas or open areas with seating and park-like qualities as part of their property, so that might count as the closest “park”.
If your region is a little cold, just keep your jacket open to show off your white shirt. Or just wear a white coat.
Try to pick a location where you can see well around you and others might be able to see you rather than hiding in the bushes somewhere.
Bring something to entertain yourself with and walk around a bit while you enjoy the springtime weather.
OP - https://8ch.net/pol/res/13066034.html
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[–] 18275638? ago
Good luck on that, and enjoy your museum trip.
>>13185612
No, look at my post history. I only bump when I think there is something to say to a post above mine. I don't bump with one-liners or even snappy retorts much at all. Most of the shitposts that end up bumping the thread are shills or people pissed off at shills. I'd rather have more discussion, like about what kinds of locations would be good to have a Walk at and ways to improve on this networking model.
>>13185785
Demonstrably correct. A previous anon suggested metal concerts would be excellent places to meet likeminded people, whether they were anons or not. I thought that was excellent thinking. There must be more venues where that happens to be the case.
>>13188754
Don't see how the Walk idea creates usable data to mine. First, the central premise of it is to do something completely offline and have untraceable meetings out there, which by definition doesn't create data to mine. Second, all the opsec mentioned and encouraged in a Walk is designed to limit minable data down to negligible amounts. Third and most important, anons who don't even post anything in this thread might participate and not have any data to mine at all, and those that do post don't post anything useful towards whatever you think is going to be mined for. I haven't yet heard a real argument for what this mined data would be or what it would be used for outside of paranoid fantasies about police drones and FBI agents around every corner.
>>13188787
This is metafallacy or "fallacy fallacy" by definition. Your assertion isn't backed up by any expressed reasoning, so a counter that criticizes an implication of it without much elaboration itself can't be worse than your original statement. You can fix that by elaborating and making a case for your original statement's intent.
>>13188884
Thanks for brainstorming on that topic. I bet anons could be encouraged to go to local festivity events to mingle and enjoy the culture they are seeking to protect and cultivate. Could do like you suggest and just say if there is a local event to wear the Walk gear to it and see if you can chat with anyone. I think I might replace the idea of dub days with festival Walks since they accomplish the same thing with a bit more variety and efficacy. Thank you for the ideas, anon.
>>13189468
Excellent news, same here. Good luck in your future Walks.
>>13189498
I wouldn't recommend that. Poor opsec for one, and second I don't think that would end well for you if you had hostile intentions.
>>13189750
There's no other choice for them. The real arguments against a Walk are nuanced and lurk in the details of whether it is effective or not or if anons could be spending their time in better networking opportunities. But against the concept itself there isn't a real argument to an honest anon why it is a dangerous or bad thing. The structure precludes honeypot potential so long as proper opsec is followed, but that doesn't accomplish the shill goal of shutting down the idea or the thread. The only other option is to engage with the concept which only exposes how absolutely difficult and non-feasible it would be for a hostile organization to do something about a Walk in progress. And that certainly doesn't help them. Hence doubling down and IP hopping to astroturf is the only way forward for dishonest actors, and that's what they have been doing and will continue to do.
Don't be too disheartened by that, it just means they don't have a good means of shutting down this idea even at the most easy-to-control bottleneck. What does that mean when it gets out into the real world? I find that encouraging.