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As a community we need to commit to self-moderate. Trolls and shitposters often take advantage of the free speech environment afforded by minimal moderation to brigade us with troll attempts and shitposts. Harassing with shitpost brigades was (and is) one of the techniques employed by SRS on that other site. Our policy is not to delete these posts or ban these users, so we need the rest of the users to use their votes. Trolls will get tired if the only response they receive in here is downvotes. So sort by "New" and downvote all the troll and shitpost threads, then sort by "Hot" to browse the sub. Important threads will always be stickied
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[–] Disappointed 1 point 8 points 9 points (+9|-1) ago (edited ago)
I'm not sure if he's a shill or not but I did see that handle on phuks.co when I was there last week looking at a thread linked from here.
Edit - here's what I was looking at: https://archive.is/bKBwU
[–] [deleted] 2 points -2 points 0 points (+0|-2) ago (edited ago)
[–] Disappointed 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago (edited ago)
You've said an awful lot to me about accepting things and offending me when all I did was say I saw your name somewhere. Who are you talking to with this stuff?
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Again who are you talking to? Did you reply to the wrong comment? I haven't given my opinion to anyone yet on what Trump did or even if I support Trump or not. Or phuks for that matter. You've made a man of straw and are arguing with it.
[–] 8709384? 1 point 7 points 8 points (+8|-1) ago (edited ago)
EDIT: The user did not sell is account and isn't a shill. End edit. Good eye, @Crensch. Thank you for bringing this to the community's attention- I'm very concerned that a shill post was upvoted so high. Time for us all to be vigilant.
[–] Crensch [S] ago
Still not convinced, but I'll let it lie for now.
[–] 8715144? ago
There are a lot of shills out, I agree with that. I don't think this user is one though.
[–] Dumb_Comment_Bot 3 points 7 points 10 points (+10|-3) ago (edited ago)
I remember @alduin leaving too, but he didnt seem like the kind of guy to sell his account, he kept the Minecraft server going out of pocket, why would he need the money?
Simple test: @alduin what is my Minecraft handle?
Alduin answered, that was the correct answer. I never did join the minecraft server but I wanted to. In my opinion means he isn't a shill. A shill wouldn't even answer this.
[–] [deleted] 2 points 3 points 5 points (+5|-2) ago (edited ago)
[–] Dumb_Comment_Bot 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Pretty good test. Shareblue shills would never spend 10 minutes typing out a response about minecraft. I never did join but I wanted to. School and applications have kept me busy.
A shareblue shill would either ignore my question or use their nsa hack-y skills to figure out my handle, something the real Alduin could not know. I vouch for your non-shillingness.
[–] 8713590? 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
I apologize for thinking you were a sold account. Went through the thread and posted that I was wrong.
[–] Crensch [S] ago
Not terribly convinced still. Too many red flags to consider this legitimate, despite his answering your question. What if the terms of the sale included relevant information like that, or the ability to contact him to ask such questions? Shills are stupid, but they can still learn from thousands of mistakes eventually.
[–] Dumb_Comment_Bot 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Hey man, I don't know. He has a legitimate grievance with trump, thats perfectly allowed. And he actually puts effort into things. Also he hates clinton too, something shareblue would not do, especially if they didn't have to.
Shills probably could learn and do fancier and fancier things to keep themselves hidden but lets be honest, these are democrats, critical thinking is not their forte. I'd give them another 2-3 years to go from obviously upvoted posts on the front page by 1 hour accounts to buying an account and getting the previous owner to keep responding for them.
Theres a common idea in a movement, especially a small one like our which is don't punch rightward
We should realize who the real enemy is, not people who kinda dont like trump, or people who do like trump, but the vapid leftists destroying our country.
[–] TahTahBur ago
That wasn't a simple answer.... what does it mean?
[–] Dumb_Comment_Bot 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
That was the correct answer. If I was a jury, hes not a shill.
[–] Crensch [S] 3 points 7 points 10 points (+10|-3) ago
@kevdude - I thought about making this a sticky, but didn't want to remove the mod megathread.
Maybe a shareblue megathread needs to be created... look at this obviously bought-and-paid-for shill fucker:
https://voat.co/v/politics/1778122/8709099 https://archive.is/3JNYO
Shit is real.
[–] Crensch [S] 3 points 7 points 10 points (+10|-3) ago
@kevdude @disappointed @cynoclast @mickgoestojail @cynabuns
[–] Crensch [S] 3 points 6 points 9 points (+9|-3) ago
@adhdferret @phenomenaldouche @empress @dumb_comment_bot @victorsteinerdavion
[–] Daeshaniqua 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
cynoclast is a just a top commie cuck, not a shill
[–] Crensch [S] ago
Didn't say he was a shill, or a commie cuck. I value his opinion, which is why I pinged him.
[–] collegetoker ago
Yet another reason why having username handles isn't a positive thing. It's hard to manipulate the chans when you're just another faceless nobody.