There is a lot going on in the boards, here, from what I can see. Take my account with a grain of salt, but I am also crazy enough to see into the proverbial abyss, a bit. I came from a forum that I believe was used largely as a front operation by blood line families for veiled communication - or one that was maintained by a Slavic order and other branches/lineages dropped by to "keep up foreign relations."
Many of the shills may be related to certain intelligence agency projects, bots, etc - the simple copy-pasta stuff, mainly. The more responsive posts and human-like shill posts are likely the types I refer to as court jesters. Occasionally a sort of gate-keeper.
They act absurd and ridiculous - mocking and jestive many times, but often have a more pointed meaning behind the veil. These are from the various blood lines and/or family orders… "Clans". They are not rank and file, but act directly under the heads of those family groups.
Here, the ones who oppose the general public and Q stand out. The harder ones to track and identify are the neutral or pro alliances. You have to catch the pointing out of notables and the occasional commentary - like someone marking an anon's comment for the sake of illustration to others who are quietly in attendance or who will be checking later.
There again - I am speaking of things that I have no capability to verify on my own, and I can easily allow my ego to run away with my perception of things.
As I once told someone "Perhaps I am crazy, but there's always some epic adventure waiting for me right around the corner."