I’d say there is a huge amount of bots, then the smart bots, then the actual shills. The smarter ones run complex operations and are able to use their own power to self propel their own stories. And there are a lot of similar ‘power users’ who are not wholly paid for by someone but would do work for the highest bidder. I’d bet that yes, 50% of what’s on the front page of major things is reputation management or Hail Corporate stuff, then I’d wager the mostly less popular stuff is actual people, with a ton of bad posts from all sides at the low popularity

fuck all these ‘tribalism’ promotion posts, we should be finding ways to work together. Lisa, you’re tearing me apart!

If all cops ate seven grams of magic mushies I think the world would be a much better place for everyone who has to deal with cops

Do you agree that those who are tasked with upholding the law should be allowed to violate that same law with impunity?

I understand your comment but I don’t see how it could overcome the above question in regard to police officers.

that beyond brauts are pretty good actually

We are not no, and look how well it is working. I get that doing things that is unfair is unfair but this point is to me more fair, not less.

The video isn’t working and your words don’t make sense General Jack D. Ripper : Do you realise that fluoridation - is the most monstrously-conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face? this view was regarded as a fringe idea in the 60s

The CCP is also very interested in all this

it looks like all these people would be ruining their whole careers by doing some of these things, I wonder if a standardly randomized IQ test and public results shoud be a thing for US public servents

What’s happening is that when things act as an ad they fulfill the same marketing purpose as a paid advertisement. Just because it happened to you, doesn’t mean talking about it online is not marketing in its effect. But I see where you’re coming from.
This idea is like thinking that people with shirt with huge brand names on them are helping to raise that brand’s awareness level with others. Things can be more than one thing at the same time.

but sounded correct to someone who didn’t know better

specious /spē′shəs/ adjective

Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually fallacious.
"a specious argument."

and then the real answer will be hidden or something silly, or in some cases where money is involved the correct answer might have been removed

They have probably only provided a small amount of available data, and have much more data, of different type.

Yes we’ve got the data, but now we need it from different angles!

They’ve finally gone full /HailCorporate, become the thing some of the original people of the site would probably not have agreed with in many ways

There is an idea that may help this, if it were built and then also used. it's a form of group decision making based on fluid data that solidifies as more data comes in.

One of the main aspects is that comments and things are compared to others to find how similar they are, something may present itself differently but be the same discussion. This method of identifying each 'argument' and 'rebuttal' goes hand in hand with declaring definitions so that conversations can't be flipped around by a bad actor. There's a big write up of the way it can be used to combat disinformation but as far as I know it's just the outline of how such a system would work, no one has built the system.

It's kind of similar to voting sites like reddit but goes a lot farther in defining ways things work, and works so ostracize trolls and the like. but as it would require something no one online would ever go for, being in one way 'tied' to your offline person, that I don't see it ever being a mainstream thing. Of course the accounts people would be using would be in no way identifiable unless selfdoxed they would still be like voter registration in that a real person had to be there once, and all things that person does online are here tied to them so that trolls and things show clearly over time. It's really designed to be mostly a niche discussion platform engine for people in the same hobby or interest.

This is just an advertisement for this store. does this place have a hail corporate yet?