I noticed a new shill tactic a few breads ago. Someone posted a "KYS" to Q using the name "AntiFungalLeafBread." Also I'm pretty sure that AFLB was the Board Volunteer just let go by the board owner.
Now we have the Board Owner proposing a trust and trips system for bakers. While this all may be well intentioned, it reminds me of how we got into the shill storms that eventually forced us to migrate from half-chan.
Back then we started using trips to build trust. It backfired and we wound up with the movement split into two faction on two different boards.
I think the chans' culture is our best defense against shills. As always, anons need to read every post on its own merits, weigh every notable on its own merits and check every Q post themselves.
As soon as we establish a "trust" system, someone will abuse that trust. Worse, it will make us lazy.
I remember highly trusting AntiFungal back when he was baking all night in the shill storms. There were other trusted names too. Then we got a tripfag who had slightly different ideas from the majority. With trips we got into multi-bread long
arguments.
At that time, I briefly flirted with joining the Baker's Union. I got all set up on Rizon and went through a series of questions to verify that I am in fact a real human being and an old USMC grunt.
Then I realized that I was just setting myself up to become a fame fag. Worse, I was playing into the authority of those anons who had given up their anonymity by becoming trip-fag Baker's Union, famefags.
Come on anons. The chans have run just fine for years with anons being anons. So what if we get a shill baker? We're autists. We'll spot it in a heartbeat. The greater risk is that we start annointing some anons as more trusted than others.
TRUST NO ONE.
While I'm at it, I'm pretty sure that someone is now posing as AFLB to make the real AntiFungal look bad. Since when, on the chans, has personal credit or shame mattered?
All that matters is the quality of the post itself.
So, I say thanks to the real AntiFungal, but let him and all others who would be like him remain anon like the rest of us.
No leaders, no authorities (Except Q and even then verify), just anons with the hive mind.
On AntiFungalLeafBread and the new trips for bakers plan.