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[–] hwong 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

yup. I've been a "professional forum manager' off and on for over 20 years now. Started back in the dial up BBS days and then came up under the .com era when being a "forum manager" meant managing online tech support, proctoring chat rooms, minding message bases and knowledge bases (now WIKIS) and being the web front point for a company. Now it means managing perceptions and PR and slewing social media campaigning and reporting to fusion centers, usually to cover or shill for some BS company or product.

The point of this? People would not remotely understand how much backend work goes into developing tools, tech and methodologies for this type of thing from public companies and now, over the last ten years, government agencies and has been going on for a very long time, much longer then folks realize.

Frankly, don't trust anything you see on mainstream web now-a-days, really, just don't. if it's important, I guarantee it's been 'processed" through some opinion machine or group somewhere along the line. i.e. Think amazon reviews, FB posts, search engine results, twitter feeds, anything on DISQUS ,online forum reviews, reddit posts ect... all of these things are routinely doctored, feathered, manipulated, slid, brigaded and monitered. ..... the grey web is still about half reliable for opinions and the dark web is about 40-50% trustworthy when it comes to reliable opinions, but even these places are getting sniffed out by business and gov machines.

And remember kids.... while it doesn't seem very important to you now. The all seeing machine is watching and adding everything you do to you life-long X-keystore file.....