Fortunately I am also a fairly skilled line toe-er. I can take full advantage of the exact same loopholes as he does.
If this community is going to go down the 4chan troll-hole, which seems steadily more likely as time goes on, I’m not letting it go without a rhetorical fight. Especially when it comes with a pleasant dose of nostalgia.
Heh, I’ll leave it to you then. I’ll point out the flaws in this poster’s logic as I can, but really…with how prolific it is (can’t say it’s a bot, can’t say it’s a bot…), that’d be a fucking full-time job.
I honestly don’t think it is a bot. I think its a young guy, teens or early 20s, very strong Trump supporter willing to do whatever might help his boy without having to do anything that’s not fun.
Could be, though I’d question the prolificness. I guess that’s why the mods come down on us so hard. You can’t be certain of anything because…well, there ARE Russian bot-farms, Trumpers (even teams of them operating in tandem), and of course True Believers ™, and short of catching the guy in the act and examining his rig, you can’t be sure what you’re dealing with. That said, IMO, there’s not really a huge difference between them when it comes to debunking them. A vote for a third party is a vote for the major party most opposed to your third party in the USA. At least until we get RCV in more places!
What makes trolls so difficult to stamp out is they enjoy the process. You used to be able to starve them by depriving them of interaction, but after qanon demonstrated that internet trolling can have real-world effects, that method stopped working. Now it’s a combination of fun and political activism. Where fun leaves off as a motivation, the activism takes over and vice-versa. The combo can reasonably make one extremely prolific, just like how somebody can spend a whole day playing a video game they really like.
The only way to truly combat them at the community level nowadays is to embrace your inner teenager and approach them with the exact same duo of motivations. Since I’m also engaging in an entertaining process, while hopefully providing some education on trolling techniques and critical thinking, I can match his enthusiasm to the extent that real life allows me.
The rest is just checking your phone for notifications regularly, which I do anyway. lol
I’m not familiar with that term in this context. Can you explain?
Also, I see WAY more pro-Harris posts here than anything else. So do you think there are teams of people and bots posting articles for her? Cuz it’s pretty suspicious how many articles there are on here of her. Hmmmm…
A vote for a third party is a vote for the major party most opposed to your third party in the USA.
Nope. A vote for a third party is a vote for a third party. Which I’m proud to cast a vote for. I respect and support you right to vote for whoever you want. Which is the same right I have. Thanks!
I know it’s your opinion that you don’t support Trump, but statistically speaking you most likely do. If we consider how many Cruz supporters there are, vs how many Trump supporters wishing to syphon away dem votes, we find the group of Trump supporters is over 10x larger. Given how people can lie on the internet, it’s best to go with the statistics over just trusting in your word.
Perhaps you should work on your reading comprehension. If you look, I never said “my post count”. I said “the comment count on the post”. It has nothing to do with me.
Fortunately I am also a fairly skilled line toe-er. I can take full advantage of the exact same loopholes as he does.
If this community is going to go down the 4chan troll-hole, which seems steadily more likely as time goes on, I’m not letting it go without a rhetorical fight. Especially when it comes with a pleasant dose of nostalgia.
Heh, I’ll leave it to you then. I’ll point out the flaws in this poster’s logic as I can, but really…with how prolific it is (can’t say it’s a bot, can’t say it’s a bot…), that’d be a fucking full-time job.
I honestly don’t think it is a bot. I think its a young guy, teens or early 20s, very strong Trump supporter willing to do whatever might help his boy without having to do anything that’s not fun.
Which amounts to trolling on Lemmy apparently.
Could be, though I’d question the prolificness. I guess that’s why the mods come down on us so hard. You can’t be certain of anything because…well, there ARE Russian bot-farms, Trumpers (even teams of them operating in tandem), and of course True Believers ™, and short of catching the guy in the act and examining his rig, you can’t be sure what you’re dealing with. That said, IMO, there’s not really a huge difference between them when it comes to debunking them. A vote for a third party is a vote for the major party most opposed to your third party in the USA. At least until we get RCV in more places!
What makes trolls so difficult to stamp out is they enjoy the process. You used to be able to starve them by depriving them of interaction, but after qanon demonstrated that internet trolling can have real-world effects, that method stopped working. Now it’s a combination of fun and political activism. Where fun leaves off as a motivation, the activism takes over and vice-versa. The combo can reasonably make one extremely prolific, just like how somebody can spend a whole day playing a video game they really like.
The only way to truly combat them at the community level nowadays is to embrace your inner teenager and approach them with the exact same duo of motivations. Since I’m also engaging in an entertaining process, while hopefully providing some education on trolling techniques and critical thinking, I can match his enthusiasm to the extent that real life allows me.
The rest is just checking your phone for notifications regularly, which I do anyway. lol
I’m not familiar with that term in this context. Can you explain?
Also, I see WAY more pro-Harris posts here than anything else. So do you think there are teams of people and bots posting articles for her? Cuz it’s pretty suspicious how many articles there are on here of her. Hmmmm…
Nope. A vote for a third party is a vote for a third party. Which I’m proud to cast a vote for. I respect and support you right to vote for whoever you want. Which is the same right I have. Thanks!
Thanks for the compliments. But I don’t support Trump. Thank you!
I know it’s your opinion that you don’t support Trump, but statistically speaking you most likely do. If we consider how many Cruz supporters there are, vs how many Trump supporters wishing to syphon away dem votes, we find the group of Trump supporters is over 10x larger. Given how people can lie on the internet, it’s best to go with the statistics over just trusting in your word.
I’m not voting for Trump. Thanks!
You’re doing the broken record repeating thing again. Though I guess you did switch from “not supporting” to “not voting”.
Given your pattern of spinning things, though, I think people should take that with a grain of salt.
Nah, since now we know that you just wanna up comment counts, I won’t be explaining anything to you. You’ve showed your true intentions:
Perhaps you should work on your reading comprehension. If you look, I never said “my post count”. I said “the comment count on the post”. It has nothing to do with me.
Thank you for the compliments!